Apache Ignite - Introduction

This is an introductory post to Apache Ignite.

1. What is Apache Ignite?

2. Durable memory

Apache Ignite is memory-centric platform based on durable memory architecture. It allows you to store and processing data on in-memory(RAM) and on disk (If Ignite Native persistence is enabled). When the Ignite native persistence is enabled, it will treat disk as superset of data, which is cable of surviving crash and restarts.

3. In-memory features

RAM is always treated as first memory tier, all the processing happens there. It has following characteristics.

4. Persistence features

Here are few high-level persistence features.



Tags: Apache Ignite, Compute Grid, distributed caching, distributed database, in-memory data grid

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