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GridGain Systems
Company blog · gridgain.com/resources/blogprogrammingdata
GridGain Systems is the company blog at gridgain.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link GridGain pages mainly as technical references: a network-segmentation doc, Apache Ignite's RocksDB storage, HTAP database context, and a Javadoc page. None judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Harness sub-millisecond speed with GridGain, the enterprise-grade in-memory platform built to power the next generation of transactions, analytics, and agentic AI applications. GridGain is a MariaDB company.
What Hacker News says?
You write that Hazelcast belongs to a category of software that characteristically chooses speed/availability over consistency in case of network partitions[1]. A web search leads me to your your competitor who sounds like they are tackling the issue by putting consistency first: https://docs.gridgain.com/v8.1/docs/network-segmentation https://www.gridgain.com/products/software/enterprise-editio... "When there is a…
Comment linking /products/software/enterprise-edition/network-segmentation-protection
on “Hazelcast 3.8.3”Submitted Apache Ignite’s Baseline Topology Explained as a story · 3 points
HN discussionApache Ignite 3 also uses RocksDB as a pluggable storage https://www.gridgain.com/resources/blog/apache-ignite-3-alph...
Comment linking /resources/blog/apache-ignite-3-alpha-3-apache-calcite-raft-and-lsm-tree
on “What's the big deal about embedded key-value databases?”Submitted GridGain 9 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSnappyData employee here. In general this is called the "HTAP" industry (Gartner's phrase: Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing). SnappyData: https://www.snappydata.io , MemSQL: https://www.memsql.com/ , Splice Machine: https://www.splicemachine.com/ , SAP Hana: https://www.sap.com/products/hana.html , GridGain: https://www.gridgain.com/ are some of the technologies within it
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on “Breaking the trillion-rows-per-second barrier with MemSQL”Submitted Distributed Caching Is Dead – Long Live… as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> an "important" flag you could put on the key types, functions, etc. I liked the "start here" pictures here: http://www.gridgain.com/javadoc/index.html > grouping of related information I agree -- if the output of this could be made to make sense. I usually end up doing this manually in a tutorial with a bunch of English around it, I'm skeptical that a list of related items, even if carefully picked, would do much…
Comment linking /javadoc/index.html
on “Writing good documentation (part 1)”Submitted Why Oracle And SAP Are Missing The Point Of In-Memory Computing. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can access the webinar via https://www.gridgain.com/resources/webinars/options-adding-s...
Comment linking /resources/webinars/options-adding-speed-and-scale-postgresql-deployments
on “Best Practices for Adding Speed and Scale to PostgreSQL Deployments”Submitted Cache vs. In-Memory Data Grid vs. In-Memory Database as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Welcome: GridGain 4.0 as a story · 1 points
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