Why Apache Ignite?
Apache Ignite is an open source In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG), distributed database, caching and high performance computing platform. It offers a bucketload of features and integrates well with other Apache frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, and Cassandra.
So why do we need Apache Ignite? We need it for its High Performance and Scalability.
Of course, the phrase high performance might be very popular in our industry, but it's equally ambiguous. There's no established numerical threshold for when regular performance becomes high performance, just as there's no clear threshold for when data becomes Big Data, or when services become Microservices.
Fortunately, culture tends to generate its own barometers, and in computer science, ...
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