About GridGain

GridGain^® Systems is a MariaDB company. In March 2026, GridGain, a leader in in-memory computing, became a part of MariaDB to deliver on the vision to create an AI-Ready Operating Platform.

GridGain is built on Apache^® Ignite™ and addresses the application speed and scalability needs of the digital enterprise, including delivering additional speed and low latency required for agentic AI.

Why use GridGain?

Companies undergoing digital transformations often experience performance and scalability limitations with their existing applications. The massive amounts of data generated by their applications overwhelm their existing architecture, preventing them from processing data in real-time to meet end-user performance requirements. Limits on performance and scalability prevent enterprises from capitalizing on trends, introducing new features, and gaining real-time business insights based on the massive amount of data generated by their applications. Their architectures prevent them from fully using their data to meet end-user performance requirements, capitalize on business opportunities, and gain the crucial insights that allow them to make the right business decisions in real-time.

The GridGain in-memory computing platform solves these challenges without requiring a rip-and-replace of their existing databases or applications. The GridGain in-memory computing platform is inserted between existing application and data layers to speed up and scale-out applications. GridGain is a distributed computing solution that users deploy on a cluster of server nodes, not on a single server like many relational databases. GridGain can spread the data in a user's existing monolithic database across a cluster of commodity servers, which provides massive scalability and unparalleled speed to the application. GridGain maintains the application data in memory and uses massively parallel processing (MPP) to leverage the pooled CPU power of the entire cluster to provide up to a 1,000 times increase in application performance.

Who uses GridGain?

Our customers use the GridGain in-memory computing platform for a wide variety of use cases that require speed and scalability. GridGain Systems customers span leading companies in financial services, fintech, software, eCommerce, retail, telecommunications, online business services, healthcare, and more. Example customers include 24 Hour Fitness, American Airlines, American Express, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, HPE, Motorola Solutions, Optiva, RBC, Reliance Jio, State Street Corporation, Telecom Italia, UPS, Verizon, and XPO Logistics.