Increasing the size of IGNITE_BPLUS_TREE_LOCK_RETRIES makes the issue go away. But the explanation that is occurs due to contention is somewhat not clear.
In all cases, in occurred to be when I was creating an index. Feels like it is somehow related to the height of the tree... and this variable seems to limit the height. -- Sent from: http://apache-ignite-users.70518.x6.nabble.com/