The Apache Software Foundation Announces ApacheT TajoT as a Top-Level Project

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The Apache Software Foundation Announces ApacheT TajoT as a Top-Level

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FOREST HILL, Md., April 1, 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 Tajo 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.

"It's a pleasure to graduate from the Apache Incubator," said Hyunsik

Choi, Vice President of Apache Tajo. "This milestone further

reinforces our hard work in bringing a much-needed big data solution

under the Apache banner."

Dubbed an "SQL-on-Hadoop" solution, Apache Tajo is a robust big data

relational and distributed data warehouse system for Apache Hadoop.

Tajo is designed for low-latency and scalable ad-hoc queries, online

aggregation, and ETL (extract-transform-load process) on large-data

sets stored on HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and other data

sources. By supporting SQL standards and leveraging advanced database

techniques, Tajo allows direct control of distributed execution and

data flow across a variety of query evaluation strategies and

optimization opportunities.

The Tajo project began in 2010 at Korea University's Database Lab, and

entered the Apache Incubator in March 2013. Apache Tajo is in use at

Gruter, Korea University, and SK Telecom, among others, for its

ability to analyze massive data sets in real time.

"Apache Tajo has earned its place as a top-level project in the ASF.

It's an excellent example of a community building around a core piece

of technology. Not to mention, the technology itself is quite cool.

Tajo has a large role to play in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem," said

Jakob Homan, Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, and ASF Member.

"Tajo project is a really good example that how company and Open

Source community can benefit from each other. Its real open community

has assisted me to solve lots of practical problems, and I have

opportunities to make Tajo more robust and have richer

functionalities," said Keuntae Park, IT manager of SK Telecom and

contributor to Apache Tajo. "I feel much affection for Tajo project

and it's my great pleasure to participate in its growth, graduation,

and becoming of top-level project."

"Tajo is one of the most promising projects for SQL-on-Hadoop. Many

contributors have been improving Tajo by developing various

interesting features. It's an honor for me to work with such a

wonderful community," said Jihoon Son, Ph.D. candidate at Korea

University and contributor to Apache Tajo.

"Apache Tajo has been a model community through the Incubator. They

have demonstrated meritocracy on lists in the face of some pretty

awesome and complex software for Big Data Analytics," said Chris

Mattmann, Apache Tajo Incubator Mentor at the ASF, and Chief

Architect, Instrument and Science Data Systems Section at NASA JPL.

"We are currently evaluating the use of Tajo in projects for Radio

Astronomy at JPL, as well as in the context of our Airborne Snow

Observatory (ASO) project for Big Data query processing and storage.

I'm really excited to see where Tajo is headed along with the other

Big Data stacks at the ASF including Spark and Mesos."

"The key to a successful Open Source community lies in its diversity

and active participation," added Choi. "As Apache Tajo continues to

grow, we welcome contributions with code, documentation, testing,

submitting patches, and other valuable forms of feedback."

Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Tajo

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 Tajo, visit

http://tajo.apache.org/

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", "Apache HTTP Server", "Apache Mesos", "Mesos", "Apache

Spark", "Spark", "Apache Tajo", "Tajo", 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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