The GridGain Systems In-Memory Computing Blog

With some 30 breakout sessions, the In-Memory Computing Summit Europe 2019, happening June 3-4 in London, is a must-attend learning event for data scientists across the region. For today’s blog post I had the chance to speak with one of the many in-memory computing experts who will be speaking there: Chris Jenkins, senior director of In-Memory Technology at Oracle. His talk is titled, “Cloud…
Hi! I’m Dmitriy Pavlov and I work at GridGain. I’m also an Apache® Ignite™ committer, a member of the Apache Ignite PMC (Project Management Committee -- and a committer and member of the PPMC at Apache Training (incubating). PPMC stands for “Podling Project Management Committee.” Recently, I delivered a talk about promoting Ignite as a committer at Sberbank’s meetup on open-source topics. An…
The In-Memory Computing Summit 2019 – Europe is just over two months away. One of the speakers is Hypi CTO Courtney Robinson. His session is titled, “Building a Graph Centric Platform on Apache® Ignite™” (June 4 at 11:55 p.m.).   Hypi is a serverless platform for accelerating application development. By providing a GraphQL data model, Hypi generates a CRUD API on the fly…
For today's Apache® Ignite™ webinar we have a special guest presenter, Hypi CTO Courtney Robinson. Hypi is a serverless platform for accelerating application development. By providing a GraphQL data model, Hypi generates a CRUD API on the fly that can be extended with custom serverless functions. In his presentation, Courtney will explain Ignite's built-in support for full-…
Join GridGain's VP of product management, Denis Magda (who is also VP of the Apache® Ignite™ PMC), for his live webinar on March 20 and learn the how to use Node.js with Ignite. Register here. Node.js is a very popular and powerful JavaScript runtime environment. It is lightweight and efficient and benefits from an extensive package ecosystem. Apache® Ignite™ (Ignite) is a memory-…
When the Ignite project emerged in the Apache Software Foundation, it was thought of as a pure in-memory-solution: a distributed cache that put data into memory to speed access time. But then in 2017 came Apache® Ignite™ 2.1, which saw the debut of Ignite’s Native Persistence module that allowed Ignite to be treated as a full-blown distributed database. Since then Ignite has not depended on an…
Introduction In the first article in this series, we installed Node.js, the Node.js Thin Client package for Ignite and tested an example application. In this article, let's look at a particular scenario where Ignite can really help when working with existing data from another source, such as a Relational Database System. Often in industry, there are systems that have great business value. These…
Join one of GridGain's seasoned Customer Success gurus this Wednesday at 11 a.m. Pacific for a free one-hour webinar, Troubleshooting Apache® Ignite™. This live event is for you regardless of whether you are just getting started with Apache® Ignite™ or are a seasoned user. Register here. Stanislav Lukyanov will be sharing some of the best practices that the…
Join Denis Magda on Feb. 13 for a free one-hour webinar during which he'll introduce and explain everything that's new in Apache® Ignite™  2.7. Released about two months ago, Apache Ignite  2.7 added Deep Learning and extended languages support. Register here. Denis Magda is Vice President of the Apache Ignite PMC and GridGain's VP of product management. Before joining GridGain, Denis…
It is widely believed that a distributed cache is a simple way to make everything faster. But if my past experience is any guide, cache misuse can make things even worse.   Let’s examine a few potential scenarios under which a poorly implemented cache could hurt, not help, performance.   Scenario one: Issue: My database lags, and with your cache it slows down even How does a…