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The Apache Software Foundation Announces ApacheT SparkT as a Top-Level
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FOREST HILL, Md., Feb. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Apache
Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and
incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives,
announced today that Apache Spark has graduated from the Apache
Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the
project's community and products have been well-governed under the
ASF's meritocratic process and principles.
Apache Spark is an Open Source cluster computing framework for fast
and flexible large-scale data analysis. Dubbed a "Hadoop Swiss Army
knife" by The Register, Spark is recognized for its remarkable speed
and ease of use, running programs up to 100x faster than Apache Hadoop
MapReduce in memory, and with APIs that allow developers to quickly
write applications in Java, Python, or Scala.
"It's great to see Apache become Spark's permanent home," said Matei
Zaharia, Vice President of Apache Spark. "Spark has quickly become one
of the most active projects in the Hadoop ecosystem, with dozens of
organizations contributing, and we look forward to working closely
with the rest of the Apache community."
Initially created in 2009 at the University of California at
Berkeley's AMPLab (the research center also responsible for the
original development of Apache Mesos), the Spark distributed computing
framework for advanced analytics in Apache Hadoop can easily be used
standalone or on Hadoop YARN, EC2 or Mesos. Integrated with Apache
Hadoop, Spark is well suited for machine learning, interactive
queries, and stream processing, and can read from HDFS, HBase,
Cassandra, as well as any Hadoop data source.
"This is a major milestone for the students and researchers in the
AMPLab," said Mike Franklin, Director of the AMPLab at UC Berkeley.
"Spark demonstrates the real impact that research can have and
validates the support AMPLab has received from our White
House-announced NSF Expeditions in Computing Award and our 20+
industrial sponsors and collaborators."
"Through our work on Spark at both AMPLab and Databricks, we've
focused on making it much easier for organizations to get insights
from big data," said Ion Stoica, CEO at Databricks and Professor at UC
Berkeley. "We're doing this together with a fantastic open source
community. We look forward to continue working with the community to
accelerate the development and adoption of Apache Spark."
Since entering the Apache Incubator in June 2013, Apache Spark
bolstered its community through code contributions by more than 120
developers from 25 organizations. Apache Spark is in use at an array
of global corporations that include Alibaba, Cloudera, Databricks,
IBM, Intel, and Yahoo, among others.
Andrew Feng, Distinguished Architect at Yahoo, said "Yahoo has played
a leading role in evolving Hadoop and related big-data technologies,
including Spark. While Apache Hadoop serves as the foundation of our
big-data platform, Spark is an attractive technology for iterative
applications such as machine learning. Yahoo has made significant
contributions to the development of Spark and we congratulate Spark on
becoming an Apache top-level project."
"I'm really proud of the community aspect that has become infectious
in Apache Spark and that really grew out of the energy in the project
starting in the AMP Lab and through its movement to the ASF," said
Chris Mattmann, Apache Spark Incubator Mentor at the ASF, and Chief
Architect, Instrument and Science Data Systems Section at NASA JPL.
"Matei, Patrick, Reynold, and many of the leaders of the project have
really done a tremendous job and I'm excited to see the next
generation of Hadoop-style systems have a home at the ASF."
"We have some very exciting features coming in the next months, so
stay tuned for even more powerful versions of Spark," added Zaharia.
Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Spark
software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by
a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project
Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations,
including community development and product releases. For
documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Spark, visit
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the
all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy
leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the
world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's
meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 400
individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to
develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting
millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are
distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively
participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and
ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and
expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by
individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct,
Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei,
IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban,
WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter.
"Apache", "Spark", "Apache Spark", and "ApacheCon" are trademarks of
The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.
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