[ANNOUNCE] Apache Ignite 1.7.0 Released

[Denis Magda <dm...@gridgain.com>]

The Apache Ignite Community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Ignite 1.7.0.

Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric [1] is a high-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory platform for computing and transacting on large-scale data sets in real-time, orders of magnitude faster than possible with traditional disk-based or flash-based technologies.

The Fabric is a collection of independent and well integrated components some of which are the following:  
Advance Clustering
Data Grid
Compute Grid
Streaming & CEP
Service Grid

Apache Ignite 1.7.0 incorporates many improvements and bug fixes that are listed in the release notes [2].

Among the changes we have the one that we’re proud of and happy to tell the world about - the non-collocated distributed SQL joins [3]. This feature opens new horizons for Apache Ignite allowing its users executing the whole range of imaginable SQL queries covering all the possible and tricky use cases. You can read more details about this in the following blog post:
http://dmagda.blogspot.com/2016/08/big-change-in-apache-ignite-17-welcome.html <http://dmagda.blogspot.com/2016/08/big-change-in-apache-ignite-17-welcome.html> 

If you’re ready to make your hands dirty with Apache Ignite 1.7.0 then the downloads of source and binary distributions as well as Maven artifacts' versions are listed in the following download section:
https://ignite.apache.org/download.cgi <https://ignite.apache.org/download.cgi>

Please let us know [4] if you encounter any problems.

Regards,

The Apache Ignite Community

[1] https://ignite.apache.org <https://ignite.apache.org/>
[2] https://github.com/apache/ignite/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.txt <https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/v1.0.2/CHANGELOG.md>
[3] https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/sql-queries#non-collocated-distributed-joins <https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/sql-queries#non-collocated-distributed-joins>
[4] https://ignite.apache.org/community/resources.html#ask <https://ignite.apache.org/community/resources.html#ask>