Hi Vij, Ignite starts full-fledged node on the client side to provide the whole set of available APIs. This makes the startup process a bit heavy, but there is a room for optimizations. There is a ticket for this that you can track: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-3060
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