Apache Ignite
Apache Ignite is an open-source, distributed in-memory data grid, database, and processing platform designed for high-performance, real-time analytics, and transactional workloads. It combines the speed of in-memory computing with the durability and SQL capabilities of traditional databases,…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2014
- Category
- database
- Problem solved
- Apache Ignite was created to address the limitations of traditional databases and simple caches, which struggled with both scalability for large datasets and the need for real-time, ACID-compliant transactions and complex analytics. It solves the challenge of providing a horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance platform capable of both transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads on massive in-memory datasets, without sacrificing data consistency.
- Platforms
- unix, web, macos, linux, docker, ios, kubernetes, windows, cloud_environments
Related technologies
Notable users
- Sberbank
- UnitedHealth Group
- NetCracker
- Huawei
- GridGain (commercial vendor building upon Ignite)