GridGain Supports Apache Ignite 3.0 Release with Key Technical Contributions

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Feb. 24, 2025 — GridGain, provider of an ultra-low latency data processing platform for transactional and analytical workloads and the original creator of Apache Ignite, today announced it has contributed to the latest major release of Apache Ignite, version 3.0. These contributions reflect GridGain’s continued commitment to the open-source distributed database, caching, and computing platform.

As data volumes continue to grow exponentially and the demand for real-time user experiences reaches new heights, businesses need high-performance solutions that can keep up. Apache Ignite has long been the trusted choice for developers at top companies, enabling them to achieve unmatched speed and scale through the power of distributed in-memory computing. With the release of Apache Ignite 3.0, the platform takes a major leap forward, delivering significant improvements to enhance developer experience, platform resilience, and overall performance.

“As the original developer of Ignite and the leading enterprise-grade solution based on an Ignite foundation, we are committed to continuing to make major contributions to the evolution of the open-source Apache Ignite code,” said Lalit Ahuja, CTO at GridGain. “We are extremely excited by the new usability and performance features that make it easier for the members of the Ignite community to build, deploy, and manage high-performance distributed applications.”

Apache Ignite 3.0 simplifies installation, improves configuration management, enhances API usability, and significantly boosts performance. For experienced users, Apache Ignite 3.0 offers enhanced developer experience that simplifies continuous improvement and maintenance. New capabilities such as SQL transactions enable new use cases, and architectural improvements make deployments more resilient and efficient. For new users, Apache Ignite 3.0 provides an easier learning curve and streamlines first-time installation and configuration.

GridGain’s Technical Contributions to Apache Ignite 3.0

Installation and Management – Apache Ignite 3.0 simplifies installation and management, making it more accessible for developers and administrators. This includes a new interactive Command Line Interface (CLI) and a dynamic configuration framework.

Clients and APIs – Apache Ignite 3.0 streamlines application development by unifying access across different clients and data models, while ensuring flexibility and improving developer experience. Enhancements include unified clients, table API and unified schema, modern concurrent programming paradigms, and SQL transactions.

Architecture and Performance – Apache Ignite 3.0 includes major architectural upgrades to improve cluster reliability and efficiency. Features include raft-based consensus, MVCC transactions, a Calcite-based SQL engine, and binary tuple.

For a deeper dive into the features and capabilities of Apache Ignite 3.0, join the Apache Ignite community for their annual virtual conference – Ignite Summit 2025 – on February 25, 2025.

In the meantime, users can find more details on Apache Ignite 3.0 in this blog post by GridGain’s Director of Product Management, Stanislav Lukyanov. To try Apache Ignite 3.0, download it from the official Apache Ignite website, or check out GridGain 9 — an enterprise-grade data platform based on Apache Ignite 3.0.

About GridGain

GridGain, the original creators of Apache Ignite, offers a leading real-time data processing platform. It enables a simplified and optimized data architecture for enterprises that require extreme speed, massive scale, and high availability from their data ecosystem. GridGain is trusted by companies like Citi, Barclays, American Airlines, AutoZone, and UPS to accelerate their existing applications, speed operational analytics and fraud detection, train machine learning models for AI, and provide fast-access data hubs.

Source: GridGain