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Software Identification (SWID Tags)

GridGain distributions include a Software Identification (SWID) tag — an XML artifact, defined by ISO/IEC 19770-2:2015, that identifies the installed product to software asset management (SAM) systems such as HCL BigFix Inventory and ServiceNow.

Each deliverable carries its own tag, placed at the location that SAM tooling scans for that package format. The tag records the product name, edition, and version, so SAM tools can discover GridGain installations across your environment without a custom detection rule.

Tagged Deliverables

Tag files are named <tagId>.swidtag, where tagId combines the package identifier with the product version:

Deliverable Product Name Tag File Name

Database (ZIP, TAR, RPM, DEB, MSI)

GridGain 9

com.gridgain.gridgain9-db_<version>.swidtag

Docker image

GridGain 9

com.gridgain.gridgain9-docker_<version>.swidtag

CLI tool (ZIP, RPM, DEB)

GridGain 9 CLI

com.gridgain.gridgain9-cli_<version>.swidtag

ODBC driver (ZIP, TAR, RPM, DEB, MSI)

GridGain 9 ODBC Driver

com.gridgain.gridgain9-odbc_<version>.swidtag

SWID Tag Location

ZIP and TAR Archives

In the database and CLI archives, the tag is located in the swidtag/ directory at the root of the unpacked archive:

gridgain9-db-9.1.26/
└── swidtag/
    └── com.gridgain.gridgain9-db_9.1.26.swidtag

The ODBC driver archives use a flat tree, so the tag is located in lib/swidtag/ instead:

lib/
└── swidtag/
    └── com.gridgain.gridgain9-odbc_9.1.26.swidtag

RPM and DEB Packages

The tag is installed to /usr/lib/swidtag/, the standard SWID discovery path on Linux. To list it:

rpm -ql gridgain9-db | grep swidtag
dpkg -L gridgain9-db | grep swidtag

Windows MSI Packages

The tag is located in the swidtag subdirectory of the installation directory.

Docker Image

The tag is located in /usr/lib/swidtag/ inside the container. To extract it from a running container:

docker cp my-gridgain-node:/usr/lib/swidtag/com.gridgain.gridgain9-docker_9.1.26.swidtag .

Or from an image without starting a container:

docker run --rm --entrypoint cat gridgain/gridgain9:9.1.26 /usr/lib/swidtag/com.gridgain.gridgain9-docker_9.1.26.swidtag

SWID Tag Fields

The tag is a single <SoftwareIdentity> element with an <Entity> child and a <Meta> child. The following attributes are set:

Attribute Element Description

name

SoftwareIdentity

Product name. For example: GridGain 9, GridGain 9 CLI.

tagId

SoftwareIdentity

Identifier for this tag, in the form <package-identifier>_<version>. For example: com.gridgain.gridgain9-db_9.1.23.

tagVersion

SoftwareIdentity

Revision of this tag document. Value: 1.

version

SoftwareIdentity

Product version, including any pre-release qualifier. For example: 9.1.23, 9.1.23-p1.

versionScheme

SoftwareIdentity

Format of the version attribute. Value: semver.

xml:lang

SoftwareIdentity

Language of the human-readable attribute values. Value: en-US.

name

Entity

Product and tag creator. Value: GridGain Systems.

regid

Entity

Registration identifier of the creator. Value: regid.2009-11.com.gridgain.

role

Entity

Roles held by the entity. Value: tagCreator softwareCreator.

product

Meta

Product name. Matches the name attribute of SoftwareIdentity.

productFamily

Meta

Product family. Value: GridGain 9.

edition

Meta

Product edition. Value: Enterprise.

summary

Meta

Short product description.

For example, the tag shipped with the database ZIP archive:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SoftwareIdentity
    xmlns="http://standards.iso.org/iso/19770/-2/2014-DIS/schema.xsd"
    xmlns:gg="https://www.gridgain.com/swid-ext/1.0"
    name="GridGain 9"
    tagId="com.gridgain.gridgain9-db_9.1.23"
    tagVersion="1"
    version="9.1.23"
    versionScheme="semver"
    xml:lang="en-US">

    <Entity
        name="GridGain Systems"
        regid="regid.2009-11.com.gridgain"
        role="tagCreator softwareCreator"/>

    <Meta
        product="GridGain 9"
        productFamily="GridGain 9"
        edition="Enterprise"
        summary="GridGain 9 is a distributed database for high-performance computing with in-memory speed"/>

</SoftwareIdentity>

The default namespace URI is http://standards.iso.org/iso/19770/-2/2014-DIS/schema.xsd. This is the target namespace declared by the ISO/IEC 19770-2:2015 schema, and every generated tag is validated against that schema at build time.

GridGain Extension Attributes

Where a deliverable targets a single platform and package format, the <Meta> element also carries attributes from the GridGain extension namespace https://www.gridgain.com/swid-ext/1.0:

Attribute Description

gg:os

Target operating system. Value: linux.

gg:format

Package format. Value: docker.

The Docker image is currently the only deliverable that sets them:

<Meta
    product="GridGain 9"
    productFamily="GridGain 9"
    edition="Enterprise"
    summary="GridGain 9 distributed database Docker image"
    gg:os="linux"
    gg:format="docker"/>

These attributes are omitted from the ZIP, TAR, RPM, DEB, and MSI tags, because those deliverables are not restricted to a single platform.

ISO/IEC 19770-2:2015 permits attributes from other namespaces on the <Meta> element, so the tag remains valid against the standard schema. SAM tools that do not recognize the extension namespace ignore these attributes.

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Last updated on Aug 19, 2026