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Apache Ignite is widely used around the world and is growing all the time. Companies like Barclays, Misys, Sberbank (3r largest bank in Europe), ING, JacTravel all use Ignite to power pieces of their architecture that are critical to the day-to-day operations of those organizations. Moreover, the vendor like TIBCO uses core caching data-grid module of Apache Ignite with advanced indexing and SQL capability for their Master Data Management platform. However there are a few others alternatives to Apache Ignite from other vendors such as HazelCast, Oracle, Ehcache, GemFire, etc. The main difference of Apache Ignite from the others is the number of functionalities and simplicity of use. Apache Ignite provides a variety of functionalities, which you can use for different use cases. The key differences between the Apache Ignite , Hazelcast , and Apache Cassandra are as follows: Feature Apache Ignite Hazelcast Apache Cassandra Data model Key-value

Apache Ignite, from version 1.6 on, provides a new way to do data processing based on Kafka Connect. Kafka Connect, a new feature introduced in Apache Kafka 0.9, enables scalable and reliable streaming data between Apache Kafka and other data systems. It made it easy to add new systems to your scalable and secure stream data pipelines in-memory. In this article, we are going to look at how to set up and configure the Ignite Source connector to perform data replication between Ignite clusters. Apache Ignite, out-of-the-box, provides the  Ignite-Kafka   module with three different solutions (API) to achieve a robust data processing pipeline for streaming data from/to Kafka topics into Apache Ignite. In a nutshell, Apache   IgniteSourceConnector   is used to subscribe to Ignite cache events and stream them to Kafka topics. In other words, it can be used to export data (changed datasets) from an Ignite cache and write the contents into a Kafka topic using only a configuration file. Ignite

In this article, we take a one step further and let you through the creation of the first Ignite application to write and read (put/get) from the distributed cache. As a first example, we leave it as simple as possible to show you how to write an application in Java for manipulating the data of the Apache Ignite cluster. The application shows in this section are available from the GitHub repository (chapter two). You can clone or download the project from the GitHub, compile the application with Maven and run it in your workstation. However, if you want to enter the programs by hand, you are free to do so. In this case, you must enter the program into your computer using a text editor, not a word processor. You follow these next three steps: 1. Start your Ignite node. 2. Create a mvn project or enter the program.  3. Compile the program. 4. Run the program. Step 1 .  Start your Apache Ignite single node cluster if it is not started yet. Use the following command in your favor