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The Apache Ignite book

After a year, we have decided to write down another book related to the Apache Ignite distributed database. Within a year, Apache Ignite team redesigned the memory architecture and released a few new versions which cover new features such as Native persistence, baseline topology. Apache Ignite also optimized the performance of the SQL, added new features like Alter tables to DDL and also introduced SQLLINE command line tool for SQL based interaction. From this given release Apache Ignite team revisited the definition and purpose of the project. By their words, the definition "in-memory data fabrics/grids" limits its capabilities, rather than the distributed database, caching, and processing platform. So, in this book, we are going to cover the following topics: Apache Ignite architecture in details to build right solutions to given business problems. Use cases of using in-memory databases How Apache Ignite SQL works and how you can optimize the SQL engine to get better pe