Data Structures

Distribute your own data structure across the cluster.

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This is a legacy Apache Ignite documentation

The new documentation is hosted here: https://ignite.apache.org/docs/latest/

Ignite allows for most of the data structures from java.util.concurrent framework to be used in a distributed fashion.

Ignite gives you the capability to take a data structure you are familiar with and use it in a clustered fashion. For example, you can take java.util.concurrent.BlockingDeque and add something to it on one node and poll it from another node. Or have a distributed primary key generator which would guarantee uniqueness on all nodes.

Currently you can find the following distributed data structures in Ignite: