GridGain Turns Over In-Memory Platform To Apache As Ignite Project

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

Recently I wrapped up a report on GridGain’s In Memory Hadoop Accelerator in which I explored how leveraging memory can vastly improve the production performance of many Hadoop MapReduce jobs, and even tackle streaming use cases without re-writing them or implementing newer streaming paradigms. GridGain drops into existing Hadoop environments without much fuss, so it’s an easy add-on/upgrade. Now GridGain has just transferred the core in-memory platform over to Apache Software Foundation as the newly accepted Apache incubator Ignite project, completely contributed to the community at large.

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