You can use client node based driver [1] to get full failover support. Thin client currently indeed goes though a single node and I believe it makes sense to at least provide an ability to specify multiple addresses for the connection. I created a ticket for this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-7029
[1] https://apacheignite-sql.readme.io/docs/jdbc-client-driver -Val -- Sent from: http://apache-ignite-users.70518.x6.nabble.com/