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This is a legacy Apache Ignite documentation

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

A thin client is a lightweight Ignite client that connects to the cluster via a standard socket connection. It does not start in JVM process (Java is not required at all), does not become a part of the cluster topology, never holds any data and is not used as a destination for compute grid calculations.

What it does is it simply establishes a socket connection to a standard Ignite node​ and performs all operations through that node.

The thin clients are based on binary client protocol making it possible to support Ignite connectivity from any programming language. Presently the following thin clients are available for usage:

• Java Thin Client
• .NET Thin Client
• C++ Thin Client
• Node.JS Thin Client
• Python Thin Client
• PHP Thin Client