Developer(s) GridGain Systems Stable release v. 7.1 Written in Java Founded 2007 | Initial release 2007 Development status Active Operating system Type of business Java Platform | |
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GridGain Systems is a privately held information technology company, established in 2007, with its headquarters located in Foster City, California. It provides software and services for big data systems by utilizing in-memory computing to increase data throughput and minimize latency.
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Company
In-memory processing uses high-performance, integrated and distributed memory systems to compute and transact on large-scale data sets in real-time. GridGain’s products are marketed for ACID-compliant high-volume transactions, real-time business intelligence, as well as hybrid transactional and analytical processing and for the Internet of things.
GridGain provides software built on the open source Apache Ignite project for the Java programming language, the .NET Framework and C++.
History
The US company was incorporated in 2011, founded by Nikita Ivanov and Dmitriy Setrakyan in Pleasanton, California. A funding round of $2 to $3 million was disclosed in November, 2011. By 2013 it was located in Foster City, California when it disclosed funding of $10 million. Sberbank of Russia announced they would use the technology, and led a $15 million funding round on February 18, 2016.
Apache Ignite
In 2014, GridGain Systems donated their core code base to the Apache Software Foundation as the open source Apache Ignite project. The first release of Apache Ignite happened in early 2015, and it graduated from incubation in September 2015. For example, GridGain Enterprise Edition 7.5 corresponded to Apache Ignite 1.5 in February 2016.