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The Apache Ignite 3.0 Alpha 5 build recently became available. Here is an overview of the new features the community included in this release. Based on industry and use case, they may be of major interest to some developers while less relevant to others.
Pluggable Storage
Different use cases require different storage engines. Some storage engines are good for read-heavy operations, others…
The virtual Ignite Summit on June 14 attracted hundreds of Igniters from around the globe excited to learn and share
their experiences. (Video of all sessions is available on-demand here.)
The event, organized by GridGain and the Apache Ignite community, was preceded the day before
by free technical training sessions on Apache Ignite essentials, compute grid, and Apache Ignite with Spring Boot…
GridGain is a USA-based company that has always prided itself on being a global corporation, with employees and customers around the world. A proponent of open-source software and the original authors of the highly popular Apache Ignite in-memory platform, our company has always embraced the diversity of thought and contribution that can only come from a worldwide community.
The brutal war and…
Great news: The Apache Ignite Community has released the fourth alpha build of Ignite 3!Ignite 3 is a project that aims to create the next generation of the Apache Ignite platform, modernize and improve the usability of the product while keeping its power and flexibility. It’s been quite a journey since the project started in late 2020 – I’ve been sharing the updates along the way in a series of…
Customer 360 View is a significant aspect of digital transformation, enabling organizations to gain insights into customer behavior. Armed with this understanding, companies can make data-driven decisions to serve their customers with personalized experiences and promote growth through targeted marketing. Yet, gaining this 360 view is data-intensive and requires quick access to up-to-date…
TIBCO DataSynapse GridServer and Apache Ignite are both distributed computing solutions that provide high-performance capabilities.
The TIBCO DataSynapse GridServer deployment consists of Managers and multiple Engine hosts to scale any application at any time. TIBCO designed this highly scalable software infrastructure for enterprise organizations. It enables users to submit multiple…
Apache Ignite's default storage engine is sophisticated enough to enable us to use the database for various use cases, ranging from transactional workloads to real-time analytics. The multi-tiered storage architecture allows you to configure Ignite as a distributed, in-memory cache without persistence or to have Ignite function as a hybrid transactional/analytical database that scales beyond…
In my previous blog posts—Ignite 3 Alpha: A Sneak Peek into the Future of Apache Ignite and Just Released: Apache Ignite 3, Alpha 2—I talked about the Apache Ignite community's journey toward Ignite 3, the next generation of the Apache Ignite database.It's a tradition within the Ignite community to provide an Ignite 3 alpha release every few months. This tradition enables everyone interested in…
Overview
Prometheus is a popular monitoring tool that is supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the group who support Kubernetes. We often see Apache Ignite and GridGain users trying to integrate Prometheus with their clusters. This post provides hints about how to integrate Prometheus with Apache Ignite and GridGain.
Prometheus Configuration
This post isn’t about how best to…
In this article, we look at how transactions work in Apache Ignite. We begin with an overview of Ignite’s transaction architecture and then illustrate how tracing can be used to inspect transaction logic. Finally, we review a few simple examples that show how transactions work (and why they might not work).
Note that we assume you are familiar with the concept of key-value storage. If not,…