Terracotta is having a defining year in 2009. Their Hibernate and EHcache products provide innovative methods for object-relational mapping and distributed caching. The Terracotta 3.1.1 server is already extremely fast, but Terracotta is trying to make it even faster. DZone recently spoke with Ari Zilka, the CTO of Terracotta, Inc., in an exclusive interview about the features and performance of Terracotta's recent and upcoming products.