The community held a majority vote on defining Apache Ignite as a "distributed database": http://apache-ignite-developers.2346864.n4.nabble.com/VOTE-Define-Apache-Ignite-as-a-Distributed-Database-td50269.html
The results are as follows: [+1] - 5 votes [-1] - 1 vote [0] - 0 votes The majority voted to define Ignite as a distributed database, and the changes will be rolled out in the coming days. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-13779 - Denis
