[VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

["Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Hi Everyone,

OK, discussion has died down on this thread. I was originally
suggesting that the pTLP option may be best for this community,
but after some discussions with the existing community of
AsterixDB’ers proposing to bring the project here to the ASF,
AsterixDB would like to move forward independent of whatever
comes of the pTLP discussions.

That said, I would like to propose Apache AsterixDB as an
Incubator project. I am now calling a VOTE to accept AsterixDB
into the Apache Incubator. This VOTE will run for at least 72 hours.

[ ] +1 Accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator
[ ] +0 Don’t care.
[ ] -1 Don’t accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator because..

Thanks for the feedback so far and looking forward to the VOTE!

You can count my binding +1.

Cheers,
Chris

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Chief Architect
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++






-----Original Message-----
From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <Ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM
To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
Cc: Michael Carey <dt...@gmail.com>, Ian Maxon <im...@uci.edu>, Till
Westmann <ti...@westmann.org>
Subject: [PROPOSAL] Apache AsterixDB Incubator

>Hi Folks,
>
>I am pleased to bring forth the Apache AsterixDB proposal to the
>Apache Incubator as Champion, working in collaboration with the
>team. Please find the wiki proposal here:
>
>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AsterixDBProposal
>
>
>Full text of the proposal is below. Please discuss and enjoy. I’ll
>leave the discussion open for a week, and then look to call a VOTE
>hopefully end of next week if all is well.
>
>Cheers!
>Chris Mattmann
>
>=============================================================
>Apache AsterixDB Proposal
>
>Abstract
>
>Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
>provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large
>collections of semi-structured data.
>
>Proposal
>
>AsterixDB is a big data management system (BDMS) that makes it
>well-suited to needs such as web data warehousing and social data
>storage and analysis. Feature-wise, AsterixDB has:
>
>* A NoSQL style data model (ADM) based on extending JSON with object
>  database concepts.
>* An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) for querying
>  semi-structured data.
>* A runtime query execution engine, Hyracks, for partitioned-parallel
>  execution of query plans.
>* Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing for efficient
>  ingestion of newly arriving data.
>* Support for querying and indexing external data (e.g., in HDFS) as
>  well as data stored within AsterixDB.
>* A rich set of primitive data types, including support for spatial,
>  temporal, and textual data.
>* Indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted
>  keyword index support.
>* Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to
>  those of a NoSQL store.
>
>
>Background and Rationale
>
>In the world of relational databases, the need to tackle data volumes
>that exceed the capabilities of a single server led to the
>development of “shared-nothing” parallel database systems several
>decades ago. These systems spread data over a cluster based on a
>partitioning strategy, such as hash partitioning, and queries are
>processed by employing partitioned-parallel divide-and-conquer
>techniques. Since these systems are fronted by a high-level,
>declarative language (SQL), their users are shielded from the
>complexities of parallel programming. Parallel database systems have
>been an extremely successful application of parallel computing, and
>quite a number of commercial products exist today.
>
>In the distributed systems world, the Web brought a need to index and
>query its huge content. SQL and relational databases were not the
>answer, though shared-nothing clusters again emerged as the hardware
>platform of choice. Google developed the Google File System (GFS) and
>MapReduce programming model to allow programmers to store and process
>Big Data by writing a few user-defined functions. The MapReduce
>framework applies these functions in parallel to data instances in
>distributed files (map) and to sorted groups of instances sharing a
>common key (reduce) -- not unlike the partitioned parallelism in
>parallel database systems. Apache's Hadoop MapReduce platform is the
>most prominent implementation of this paradigm for the rest of the
>Big Data community. On top of Hadoop and HDFS sit declarative
>languages like Pig and Hive that each compile down to Hadoop
>MapReduce jobs.
>
>The big Web companies were also challenged by extreme user bases
>(100s of millions of users) and needed fast simple lookups and
>updates to very large keyed data sets like user profiles. SQL
>databases were deemed either too expensive or not scalable, so the
>“NoSQL movement” was born. The ASF now has HBase and Cassandra, two
>popular key-value stores, in this space. MongoDB and Couchbase are
>other open source alternatives (document stores).
>
>It is evident from the rapidly growing popularity of "NoSQL" stores,
>as well as the strong demand for Big Data analytics engines today,
>that there is a strong (and growing!) need to store, process, *and*
>query large volumes of semi-structured data in many application
>areas. Until very recently, developers have had to ``choose'' between
>using big data analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark,
>which can do complex query processing and analysis over HDFS-resident
>files, and flexible but low-function data stores like MongoDB or
>Apache HBase. (The Apache Phoenix project,
>http://phoenix.apache.org/, is a recent SQL-over-HBase effort that
>aims to bridge between these choices.)
>
>AsterixDB is a highly scalable data management system that can store,
>index, and manage semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but
>it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
>of SQL (and more). Unlike analytics engines like Hive or Spark, it
>stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge of
>data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always
>scanning data set(s) to process queries. Somewhat surprisingly, there
>is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise)
>available to developers today -- AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
>Since Apache is where the majority of the today's most important Big
>Data technologies live, the ASF seems like the obvious home for a
>system like AsterixDB.
>
>Current Status
>
>The current version of AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of
>faculty, staff, and students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The
>project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the
>goal of which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel
>database world, the then new Hadoop world, and the semi-structured
>(e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation
>BDMS. A first informal open source release was made four years later,
>in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0.
>
>
>Meritocracy
>
>The current developers are familiar with meritocratic open source
>development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because we want
>to encourage this style of development for the project.
>
>
>Community
>
>While AsterixDB started as a university project it has developed into
>a community. A number of the initial committers started contributing
>in academia and continue to actively participate and contribute after
>graduation. And we seek to further develop developer and user
>communities. One way to broaden the community that is ongoing is
>through academic collaborations (currently with IIT Mumbai in India
>and TU Berlin in Germany). During incubation we will also explicitly
>seek increased industrial participation.
>
>Some indicators of the effort's development community and history can
>be
>found at:
>https://www.openhub.net/p/asterixdb/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>,
>https://www.openhub.net/p/hyracks/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>
>
>Core Developers
>
>The core developers of the project are diverse, although initially UC
>Irvine heavy (roughly 50) due to the project's origins at UCI. The
>other 50 are from other academic institutions (UC Riverside and the
>Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and companies (Couchbase, Facebook,
>IBM, KACST Saudi Arabia, Oracle, Saudi Aramco, X15 Software).
>
>
>Alignment
>
>Apache is, by far, the most natural home for taking the AsterixDB
>project forward. A large fraction of today's top Big Data
>technologies have their homes in Apache, including Hadoop, YARN, Pig,
>Hive, Spark, Flink, HBase, Cassandra and others. AsterixDB fills a
>significant gap -- the parallel data management system gap -- that
>exists in the Big Data open source world. It is well-aligned with a
>number of the Apache projects, e.g., it has strong support for
>accessing and indexing external data in HDFS, and it uses YARN as an
>answer to basic cluster resource management. AsterixDB also seeks to
>achieve an Apache-style development model; it is seeking a broader
>community of contributors and users in order to achieve its full
>potential and value to the Big Data community.
>
>There are also a number of related Apache projects and dependencies
>that will be mentioned below in the Relationships with Other Apache
>products section.
>
>
>Known Risks
>
>Orphaned products
>
>Given the current level of intellectual investment in AsterixDB, the
>risk of the project being abandoned is very small. The UCI/UCR
>faculty team leads are highly incentivized to continue development
>since the database groups at UC Irvine and UC Riverside are both
>reliant on AsterixDB as a platform for long-term graduate research
>projects. UC San Diego is also beginning to contribute to the code
>base, and a collaboration involving public health applications is
>forming with UCLA. The work on AsterixDB is managed via a mix of
>mailing list discussions supplemented by weekly project status
>meetings which are summarized on the mailing list. Typical (local
>plus Skype-in) attendance to the weekly status meetings runs at about
>20 active contributors.
>
>
>Inexperience with Open Source
>
>AsterixDB and Hyracks were completely developed in Open Source under
>the ASL 2.0. The source code repositories, issue tracker, and mailing
>lists are available on Google Code and discussions and decisions
>happen on the mailing lists (which is necessary due to the geographic
>distribution of the current developers).
>
>Also a few of the initial committers have contributed to Apache
>projects. Vinayak Borkar is a committer on the Apache Helix and
>Apache VXQuery projects. Till Westmann is the VP VXQuery at the ASF
>and an IPMC member. Preston Carman and Steven Jacobs are committers
>on the Apache VXQuery project.
>
>
>Relationships with Other Apache Products
>
>Apache VXQuery is based on the Hyracks data-parallel runtime, which
>is also included in the AsterixDB code base.
>
>AsterixDB is closely related to Apache Hadoop. Included in AsterixDB
>is support for accessing external data in HDFS (and Hive formats),
>and resource management and system administration features are in the
>process of being migrated to YARN.
>
>AsterixDB's AQL query facilities offer comparable query power to
>Apache's Pig and Hive systems for big data analytics. AsterixDB
>differs in storing and indexing data and thus being able to quickly
>answer small and medium queries without large HDFS data scans -
>thereby targeting a different class of use cases.
>
>AsterixDB's data storage and indexing facilities are similar to those
>of HBase, but AsterixDB differs in being a much more complete and
>queryable BDMS (not just a key-value style store).
>
>AsterixDB's target use cases are not in-memory processing or
>iterative algorithm support, making AsterixDB complementary to the
>Apache Spark platform. (Spark interoperability is on our longer-term
>to-do wishlist.)
>
>
>Homogeneous Developers
>
>As mentioned before the current community is already organizationally
>and geographically distributed - and we would like to increase the
>heterogeneity.
>
>
>Reliance on Salaried Developers
>
>Of the initial committers only 3 are full-time UCI staff. The other
>committers are a mix of students, alumni who continue to contribute
>to the effort, and individuals working with permission part-time (or
>in spare time) on this project.
>
>
>A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
>
>We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in
>place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their
>projects and provide exposure. While brand is important, our
>fascination with it is not excessive. We believe that the ASF is the
>right home for AsterixDB and that having AsterixDB inside of the ASF
>will lead to a better long-term outcome for the Big Data community.
>
>
>Documentation
>
>Documentation and publications related to AsterixDB can be found at
>http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/.
>
>
>Initial Source
>
>Current source resides in Google code:
>https://code.google.com/p/asterixdb/ (query language and upper system
>layers) and https://code.google.com/p/hyracks/ (dataflow runtime
>system and storage management libraries).
>
>
>External Dependencies
>
>AsterixDB depends on a number of Apache projects:
>
>- Ant
>- Avro
>- ApacheDB JDO
>- Commons
>- Derby
>- Hadoop
>- Hive
>- HTTPComponents
>- Jakarta ORO
>- Maven
>- Tomcat
>- Thrift
>- Velocity
>- Wicket
>- Xerces
>
>and other open source projects (organized by license):
>
>-- ASL 2.0:
> - Jackson
> - Google Guava
> - Google Guice
> - JSON-simple
> - BoneCP
> - Microsoft Azure SDK
> - Netty
> - Rome
> - JetS3t
> - Groovy
> - Jettison
> - Plexus
> - Datanucleus (JDO)
> - Jetty
> - Twitter4J
> - Snappy-java
>
>-- BSD:
> - Antlr
> - ObjectWeb ASM
> - Protobuf
> - JSCH
> - JavaCC
> - Paranamer
> - JLine
> - Stax
> - StringTemplate
> - xmlEnc
>
>-- MIT
> - AppAssembler
> - SimpleLog4J
>
>-- CDDL 1.0
> - Java Activation Framework
> - Java Transactions
> - Java Servlet API
> - Grizzly
> - gmbal
> - Glassfish
>
>-- CDDL 1.1
> - Jersey
> - JAXB Reference Implementation
>
>-- JSON License
> - JSON
>
>-- EPL 1.0
> - JUnit
>
>-- JDOM License
> - JDOM
>
>-- Public Domain
> - xz
> - AOPAlliance
>
>As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the
>external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution.
>
>
>Required Resources
>
>Developer and user mailing lists
>
>private@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org (with moderated subscriptions)
>commits@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>dev@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>users@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>
>
>A git repository
>
>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-asterixdb.git
>
>
>A JIRA issue tracker
>
>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB
>
>
>Initial Committers
>
>The following is a list of the planned initial Apache committers (the
>active subset of the committers for the current repository at Google
>code).
>
>Abdullah Alamoudi (bamousaa@gmail.com)
>Cameron Samak (eufery@gmail.com)
>Chen Li (chenli@gmail.com)
>Ian Maxon (imaxon@uci.edu)
>Ildar Absalyamov (ildar.absalyamov@gmail.com)
>Jianfeng Jia (jianfeng.jia@gmail.com)
>Karen Ouaknine (kereno@gmail.com)
>Markus Dreseler (apache@dreseler.de)
>Mike Carey (dtabass@apache.org)
>Murtadha Hubail (hubailmor@gmail.com)
>Pouria Pirzadeh (pouria.pirzadeh@gmail.com)
>Preston Carman (prestonc@apache.org)
>Raman Grover (RamanGrover29@gmail.com)
>Sattam Alsubaiee (salsubaiee@gmail.com)
>Steven Jacobs (sjaco002@apache.org)
>Taewoo Kim (wangsaeu@gmail.com)
>Till Westmann (tillw@apache.org)
>Vinayak Borkar (vinayakb@apache.org)
>Yingyi Bu (buyingyi@gmail.com)
>Young-Seok Kim (kisskys@gmail.com)
>Zach Heilbron (zheilbron@gmail.com)
>
>
>Affiliations
>
>UC Irvine
>- Mike Carey
>- Chen Li
>- Ian Maxon
>- Yingyi Bu
>- Raman Grover
>- Pouria Pirzadeh
>- Young-Seok Kim
>- Cameron Samak
>- Taewoo Kim
>- Jianfeng Jia
>- Murtadha Hubail
>- Markus Dreseler
>
>UC Riverside
>- Ildar Absalyamov
>- Preston Carman
>- Steven Jacobs
>
>Hebrew University
>- Keren Ouaknine
>
>Oracle
>- Till Westmann
>
>X15 Software
>- Vinayak Borkar
>- Zach Heilbron
>
>KACST Saudi Arabia
>- Sattam Alsubaiee
>
>Saudi Aramco
>- Abdullah Alamoudi
>
>Carey, Li, and Maxon are full-time UCI staff, with the remaining UCI
>(UC Irvine) and UCR (UC Riverside) affiliates being students. The
>non-UC committers are a mix of alumni who continue to contribute to
>the effort and individuals working with permission part-time (or in
>spare time) on this project.
>
>
>Sponsors
>
>Champion
>
>Chris Mattmann (NASA/JPL)
>
>Nominated Mentors
>
>TBD
>
>Sponsoring Entity
>
>The Apache Incubator
>
>
>
>
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>Chief Architect
>Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
>Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
>WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
>University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
>


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Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

[Timothy Chen <tn...@gmail.com>]

+1 (non-binding)

Tim

> On Feb 22, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <li...@toolazydogs.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 binding
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Alan
> 
>> On Feb 19, 2015, at 9:38 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> That said, I would like to propose Apache AsterixDB as an
>> Incubator project. I am now calling a VOTE to accept AsterixDB
>> into the Apache Incubator. This VOTE will run for at least 72 hours.
>> 
>> [ ] +1 Accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator
>> [ ] +0 Don’t care.
>> [ ] -1 Don’t accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator because..
> 

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Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

["Alan D. Cabrera" <li...@toolazydogs.com>]

+1 binding


Regards,
Alan

> On Feb 19, 2015, at 9:38 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> That said, I would like to propose Apache AsterixDB as an
> Incubator project. I am now calling a VOTE to accept AsterixDB
> into the Apache Incubator. This VOTE will run for at least 72 hours.
> 
> [ ] +1 Accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator
> [ ] +0 Don’t care.
> [ ] -1 Don’t accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator because..

Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

["John D. Ament" <jo...@apache.org>]

+1 happy to see you guys come on board!

On Fri Feb 20 2015 at 12:40:42 AM Mattmann, Chris A (3980) <
chris.a.mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> OK, discussion has died down on this thread. I was originally
> suggesting that the pTLP option may be best for this community,
> but after some discussions with the existing community of
> AsterixDB’ers proposing to bring the project here to the ASF,
> AsterixDB would like to move forward independent of whatever
> comes of the pTLP discussions.
>
> That said, I would like to propose Apache AsterixDB as an
> Incubator project. I am now calling a VOTE to accept AsterixDB
> into the Apache Incubator. This VOTE will run for at least 72 hours.
>
> [ ] +1 Accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator
> [ ] +0 Don’t care.
> [ ] -1 Don’t accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator because..
>
> Thanks for the feedback so far and looking forward to the VOTE!
>
> You can count my binding +1.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
> Chief Architect
> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <Ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>
> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM
> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
> Cc: Michael Carey <dt...@gmail.com>, Ian Maxon <im...@uci.edu>, Till
> Westmann <ti...@westmann.org>
> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Apache AsterixDB Incubator
>
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >I am pleased to bring forth the Apache AsterixDB proposal to the
> >Apache Incubator as Champion, working in collaboration with the
> >team. Please find the wiki proposal here:
> >
> >https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AsterixDBProposal
> >
> >
> >Full text of the proposal is below. Please discuss and enjoy. I’ll
> >leave the discussion open for a week, and then look to call a VOTE
> >hopefully end of next week if all is well.
> >
> >Cheers!
> >Chris Mattmann
> >
> >=============================================================
> >Apache AsterixDB Proposal
> >
> >Abstract
> >
> >Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
> >provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large
> >collections of semi-structured data.
> >
> >Proposal
> >
> >AsterixDB is a big data management system (BDMS) that makes it
> >well-suited to needs such as web data warehousing and social data
> >storage and analysis. Feature-wise, AsterixDB has:
> >
> >* A NoSQL style data model (ADM) based on extending JSON with object
> >  database concepts.
> >* An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) for querying
> >  semi-structured data.
> >* A runtime query execution engine, Hyracks, for partitioned-parallel
> >  execution of query plans.
> >* Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing for efficient
> >  ingestion of newly arriving data.
> >* Support for querying and indexing external data (e.g., in HDFS) as
> >  well as data stored within AsterixDB.
> >* A rich set of primitive data types, including support for spatial,
> >  temporal, and textual data.
> >* Indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted
> >  keyword index support.
> >* Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to
> >  those of a NoSQL store.
> >
> >
> >Background and Rationale
> >
> >In the world of relational databases, the need to tackle data volumes
> >that exceed the capabilities of a single server led to the
> >development of “shared-nothing” parallel database systems several
> >decades ago. These systems spread data over a cluster based on a
> >partitioning strategy, such as hash partitioning, and queries are
> >processed by employing partitioned-parallel divide-and-conquer
> >techniques. Since these systems are fronted by a high-level,
> >declarative language (SQL), their users are shielded from the
> >complexities of parallel programming. Parallel database systems have
> >been an extremely successful application of parallel computing, and
> >quite a number of commercial products exist today.
> >
> >In the distributed systems world, the Web brought a need to index and
> >query its huge content. SQL and relational databases were not the
> >answer, though shared-nothing clusters again emerged as the hardware
> >platform of choice. Google developed the Google File System (GFS) and
> >MapReduce programming model to allow programmers to store and process
> >Big Data by writing a few user-defined functions. The MapReduce
> >framework applies these functions in parallel to data instances in
> >distributed files (map) and to sorted groups of instances sharing a
> >common key (reduce) -- not unlike the partitioned parallelism in
> >parallel database systems. Apache's Hadoop MapReduce platform is the
> >most prominent implementation of this paradigm for the rest of the
> >Big Data community. On top of Hadoop and HDFS sit declarative
> >languages like Pig and Hive that each compile down to Hadoop
> >MapReduce jobs.
> >
> >The big Web companies were also challenged by extreme user bases
> >(100s of millions of users) and needed fast simple lookups and
> >updates to very large keyed data sets like user profiles. SQL
> >databases were deemed either too expensive or not scalable, so the
> >“NoSQL movement” was born. The ASF now has HBase and Cassandra, two
> >popular key-value stores, in this space. MongoDB and Couchbase are
> >other open source alternatives (document stores).
> >
> >It is evident from the rapidly growing popularity of "NoSQL" stores,
> >as well as the strong demand for Big Data analytics engines today,
> >that there is a strong (and growing!) need to store, process, *and*
> >query large volumes of semi-structured data in many application
> >areas. Until very recently, developers have had to ``choose'' between
> >using big data analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark,
> >which can do complex query processing and analysis over HDFS-resident
> >files, and flexible but low-function data stores like MongoDB or
> >Apache HBase. (The Apache Phoenix project,
> >http://phoenix.apache.org/, is a recent SQL-over-HBase effort that
> >aims to bridge between these choices.)
> >
> >AsterixDB is a highly scalable data management system that can store,
> >index, and manage semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but
> >it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
> >of SQL (and more). Unlike analytics engines like Hive or Spark, it
> >stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge of
> >data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always
> >scanning data set(s) to process queries. Somewhat surprisingly, there
> >is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise)
> >available to developers today -- AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
> >Since Apache is where the majority of the today's most important Big
> >Data technologies live, the ASF seems like the obvious home for a
> >system like AsterixDB.
> >
> >Current Status
> >
> >The current version of AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of
> >faculty, staff, and students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The
> >project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the
> >goal of which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel
> >database world, the then new Hadoop world, and the semi-structured
> >(e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation
> >BDMS. A first informal open source release was made four years later,
> >in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0.
> >
> >
> >Meritocracy
> >
> >The current developers are familiar with meritocratic open source
> >development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because we want
> >to encourage this style of development for the project.
> >
> >
> >Community
> >
> >While AsterixDB started as a university project it has developed into
> >a community. A number of the initial committers started contributing
> >in academia and continue to actively participate and contribute after
> >graduation. And we seek to further develop developer and user
> >communities. One way to broaden the community that is ongoing is
> >through academic collaborations (currently with IIT Mumbai in India
> >and TU Berlin in Germany). During incubation we will also explicitly
> >seek increased industrial participation.
> >
> >Some indicators of the effort's development community and history can
> >be
> >found at:
> >https://www.openhub.net/p/asterixdb/contributors?query=&
> sort=commits_12_mo
> >,
> >https://www.openhub.net/p/hyracks/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
> >
> >
> >Core Developers
> >
> >The core developers of the project are diverse, although initially UC
> >Irvine heavy (roughly 50) due to the project's origins at UCI. The
> >other 50 are from other academic institutions (UC Riverside and the
> >Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and companies (Couchbase, Facebook,
> >IBM, KACST Saudi Arabia, Oracle, Saudi Aramco, X15 Software).
> >
> >
> >Alignment
> >
> >Apache is, by far, the most natural home for taking the AsterixDB
> >project forward. A large fraction of today's top Big Data
> >technologies have their homes in Apache, including Hadoop, YARN, Pig,
> >Hive, Spark, Flink, HBase, Cassandra and others. AsterixDB fills a
> >significant gap -- the parallel data management system gap -- that
> >exists in the Big Data open source world. It is well-aligned with a
> >number of the Apache projects, e.g., it has strong support for
> >accessing and indexing external data in HDFS, and it uses YARN as an
> >answer to basic cluster resource management. AsterixDB also seeks to
> >achieve an Apache-style development model; it is seeking a broader
> >community of contributors and users in order to achieve its full
> >potential and value to the Big Data community.
> >
> >There are also a number of related Apache projects and dependencies
> >that will be mentioned below in the Relationships with Other Apache
> >products section.
> >
> >
> >Known Risks
> >
> >Orphaned products
> >
> >Given the current level of intellectual investment in AsterixDB, the
> >risk of the project being abandoned is very small. The UCI/UCR
> >faculty team leads are highly incentivized to continue development
> >since the database groups at UC Irvine and UC Riverside are both
> >reliant on AsterixDB as a platform for long-term graduate research
> >projects. UC San Diego is also beginning to contribute to the code
> >base, and a collaboration involving public health applications is
> >forming with UCLA. The work on AsterixDB is managed via a mix of
> >mailing list discussions supplemented by weekly project status
> >meetings which are summarized on the mailing list. Typical (local
> >plus Skype-in) attendance to the weekly status meetings runs at about
> >20 active contributors.
> >
> >
> >Inexperience with Open Source
> >
> >AsterixDB and Hyracks were completely developed in Open Source under
> >the ASL 2.0. The source code repositories, issue tracker, and mailing
> >lists are available on Google Code and discussions and decisions
> >happen on the mailing lists (which is necessary due to the geographic
> >distribution of the current developers).
> >
> >Also a few of the initial committers have contributed to Apache
> >projects. Vinayak Borkar is a committer on the Apache Helix and
> >Apache VXQuery projects. Till Westmann is the VP VXQuery at the ASF
> >and an IPMC member. Preston Carman and Steven Jacobs are committers
> >on the Apache VXQuery project.
> >
> >
> >Relationships with Other Apache Products
> >
> >Apache VXQuery is based on the Hyracks data-parallel runtime, which
> >is also included in the AsterixDB code base.
> >
> >AsterixDB is closely related to Apache Hadoop. Included in AsterixDB
> >is support for accessing external data in HDFS (and Hive formats),
> >and resource management and system administration features are in the
> >process of being migrated to YARN.
> >
> >AsterixDB's AQL query facilities offer comparable query power to
> >Apache's Pig and Hive systems for big data analytics. AsterixDB
> >differs in storing and indexing data and thus being able to quickly
> >answer small and medium queries without large HDFS data scans -
> >thereby targeting a different class of use cases.
> >
> >AsterixDB's data storage and indexing facilities are similar to those
> >of HBase, but AsterixDB differs in being a much more complete and
> >queryable BDMS (not just a key-value style store).
> >
> >AsterixDB's target use cases are not in-memory processing or
> >iterative algorithm support, making AsterixDB complementary to the
> >Apache Spark platform. (Spark interoperability is on our longer-term
> >to-do wishlist.)
> >
> >
> >Homogeneous Developers
> >
> >As mentioned before the current community is already organizationally
> >and geographically distributed - and we would like to increase the
> >heterogeneity.
> >
> >
> >Reliance on Salaried Developers
> >
> >Of the initial committers only 3 are full-time UCI staff. The other
> >committers are a mix of students, alumni who continue to contribute
> >to the effort, and individuals working with permission part-time (or
> >in spare time) on this project.
> >
> >
> >A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
> >
> >We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in
> >place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their
> >projects and provide exposure. While brand is important, our
> >fascination with it is not excessive. We believe that the ASF is the
> >right home for AsterixDB and that having AsterixDB inside of the ASF
> >will lead to a better long-term outcome for the Big Data community.
> >
> >
> >Documentation
> >
> >Documentation and publications related to AsterixDB can be found at
> >http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/.
> >
> >
> >Initial Source
> >
> >Current source resides in Google code:
> >https://code.google.com/p/asterixdb/ (query language and upper system
> >layers) and https://code.google.com/p/hyracks/ (dataflow runtime
> >system and storage management libraries).
> >
> >
> >External Dependencies
> >
> >AsterixDB depends on a number of Apache projects:
> >
> >- Ant
> >- Avro
> >- ApacheDB JDO
> >- Commons
> >- Derby
> >- Hadoop
> >- Hive
> >- HTTPComponents
> >- Jakarta ORO
> >- Maven
> >- Tomcat
> >- Thrift
> >- Velocity
> >- Wicket
> >- Xerces
> >
> >and other open source projects (organized by license):
> >
> >-- ASL 2.0:
> > - Jackson
> > - Google Guava
> > - Google Guice
> > - JSON-simple
> > - BoneCP
> > - Microsoft Azure SDK
> > - Netty
> > - Rome
> > - JetS3t
> > - Groovy
> > - Jettison
> > - Plexus
> > - Datanucleus (JDO)
> > - Jetty
> > - Twitter4J
> > - Snappy-java
> >
> >-- BSD:
> > - Antlr
> > - ObjectWeb ASM
> > - Protobuf
> > - JSCH
> > - JavaCC
> > - Paranamer
> > - JLine
> > - Stax
> > - StringTemplate
> > - xmlEnc
> >
> >-- MIT
> > - AppAssembler
> > - SimpleLog4J
> >
> >-- CDDL 1.0
> > - Java Activation Framework
> > - Java Transactions
> > - Java Servlet API
> > - Grizzly
> > - gmbal
> > - Glassfish
> >
> >-- CDDL 1.1
> > - Jersey
> > - JAXB Reference Implementation
> >
> >-- JSON License
> > - JSON
> >
> >-- EPL 1.0
> > - JUnit
> >
> >-- JDOM License
> > - JDOM
> >
> >-- Public Domain
> > - xz
> > - AOPAlliance
> >
> >As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the
> >external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution.
> >
> >
> >Required Resources
> >
> >Developer and user mailing lists
> >
> >private@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org (with moderated subscriptions)
> >commits@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
> >dev@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
> >users@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
> >
> >
> >A git repository
> >
> >https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-asterixdb.git
> >
> >
> >A JIRA issue tracker
> >
> >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB
> >
> >
> >Initial Committers
> >
> >The following is a list of the planned initial Apache committers (the
> >active subset of the committers for the current repository at Google
> >code).
> >
> >Abdullah Alamoudi (bamousaa@gmail.com)
> >Cameron Samak (eufery@gmail.com)
> >Chen Li (chenli@gmail.com)
> >Ian Maxon (imaxon@uci.edu)
> >Ildar Absalyamov (ildar.absalyamov@gmail.com)
> >Jianfeng Jia (jianfeng.jia@gmail.com)
> >Karen Ouaknine (kereno@gmail.com)
> >Markus Dreseler (apache@dreseler.de)
> >Mike Carey (dtabass@apache.org)
> >Murtadha Hubail (hubailmor@gmail.com)
> >Pouria Pirzadeh (pouria.pirzadeh@gmail.com)
> >Preston Carman (prestonc@apache.org)
> >Raman Grover (RamanGrover29@gmail.com)
> >Sattam Alsubaiee (salsubaiee@gmail.com)
> >Steven Jacobs (sjaco002@apache.org)
> >Taewoo Kim (wangsaeu@gmail.com)
> >Till Westmann (tillw@apache.org)
> >Vinayak Borkar (vinayakb@apache.org)
> >Yingyi Bu (buyingyi@gmail.com)
> >Young-Seok Kim (kisskys@gmail.com)
> >Zach Heilbron (zheilbron@gmail.com)
> >
> >
> >Affiliations
> >
> >UC Irvine
> >- Mike Carey
> >- Chen Li
> >- Ian Maxon
> >- Yingyi Bu
> >- Raman Grover
> >- Pouria Pirzadeh
> >- Young-Seok Kim
> >- Cameron Samak
> >- Taewoo Kim
> >- Jianfeng Jia
> >- Murtadha Hubail
> >- Markus Dreseler
> >
> >UC Riverside
> >- Ildar Absalyamov
> >- Preston Carman
> >- Steven Jacobs
> >
> >Hebrew University
> >- Keren Ouaknine
> >
> >Oracle
> >- Till Westmann
> >
> >X15 Software
> >- Vinayak Borkar
> >- Zach Heilbron
> >
> >KACST Saudi Arabia
> >- Sattam Alsubaiee
> >
> >Saudi Aramco
> >- Abdullah Alamoudi
> >
> >Carey, Li, and Maxon are full-time UCI staff, with the remaining UCI
> >(UC Irvine) and UCR (UC Riverside) affiliates being students. The
> >non-UC committers are a mix of alumni who continue to contribute to
> >the effort and individuals working with permission part-time (or in
> >spare time) on this project.
> >
> >
> >Sponsors
> >
> >Champion
> >
> >Chris Mattmann (NASA/JPL)
> >
> >Nominated Mentors
> >
> >TBD
> >
> >Sponsoring Entity
> >
> >The Apache Incubator
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
> >Chief Architect
> >Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
> >NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
> >Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
> >Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
> >WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
> >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
> >University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
> >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

[Mike Carey <dt...@gmail.com>]

Thx!

On 2/23/15 4:26 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
> Thank you Ate! I have added you as a mentor on the proposal!
>
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AsterixDBProposal
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
> Chief Architect
> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ate Douma <at...@douma.nu>
> Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
> Date: Monday, February 23, 2015 at 6:47 AM
> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
> Cc: Michael Carey <dt...@gmail.com>, Ian Maxon <im...@uci.edu>, Till
> Westmann <ti...@westmann.org>
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator
>
>> +1 (binding)
>>
>> Very interesting.
>> And if you still like or need another mentor, I'd be willing to help out.
>>
>> Ate
>>
>> On 2015-02-20 06:38, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> OK, discussion has died down on this thread. I was originally
>>> suggesting that the pTLP option may be best for this community,
>>> but after some discussions with the existing community of
>>> AsterixDB’ers proposing to bring the project here to the ASF,
>>> AsterixDB would like to move forward independent of whatever
>>> comes of the pTLP discussions.
>>>
>>> That said, I would like to propose Apache AsterixDB as an
>>> Incubator project. I am now calling a VOTE to accept AsterixDB
>>> into the Apache Incubator. This VOTE will run for at least 72 hours.
>>>
>>> [ ] +1 Accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator
>>> [ ] +0 Don’t care.
>>> [ ] -1 Don’t accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator because..
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback so far and looking forward to the VOTE!
>>>
>>> You can count my binding +1.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>>> Chief Architect
>>> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
>>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>>> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
>>> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
>>> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
>>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <Ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>
>>> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM
>>> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
>>> Cc: Michael Carey <dt...@gmail.com>, Ian Maxon <im...@uci.edu>, Till
>>> Westmann <ti...@westmann.org>
>>> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Apache AsterixDB Incubator
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I am pleased to bring forth the Apache AsterixDB proposal to the
>>>> Apache Incubator as Champion, working in collaboration with the
>>>> team. Please find the wiki proposal here:
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AsterixDBProposal
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Full text of the proposal is below. Please discuss and enjoy. I’ll
>>>> leave the discussion open for a week, and then look to call a VOTE
>>>> hopefully end of next week if all is well.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>> Chris Mattmann
>>>>
>>>> =============================================================
>>>> Apache AsterixDB Proposal
>>>>
>>>> Abstract
>>>>
>>>> Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
>>>> provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large
>>>> collections of semi-structured data.
>>>>
>>>> Proposal
>>>>
>>>> AsterixDB is a big data management system (BDMS) that makes it
>>>> well-suited to needs such as web data warehousing and social data
>>>> storage and analysis. Feature-wise, AsterixDB has:
>>>>
>>>> * A NoSQL style data model (ADM) based on extending JSON with object
>>>>    database concepts.
>>>> * An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) for querying
>>>>    semi-structured data.
>>>> * A runtime query execution engine, Hyracks, for partitioned-parallel
>>>>    execution of query plans.
>>>> * Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing for efficient
>>>>    ingestion of newly arriving data.
>>>> * Support for querying and indexing external data (e.g., in HDFS) as
>>>>    well as data stored within AsterixDB.
>>>> * A rich set of primitive data types, including support for spatial,
>>>>    temporal, and textual data.
>>>> * Indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted
>>>>    keyword index support.
>>>> * Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to
>>>>    those of a NoSQL store.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Background and Rationale
>>>>
>>>> In the world of relational databases, the need to tackle data volumes
>>>> that exceed the capabilities of a single server led to the
>>>> development of “shared-nothing” parallel database systems several
>>>> decades ago. These systems spread data over a cluster based on a
>>>> partitioning strategy, such as hash partitioning, and queries are
>>>> processed by employing partitioned-parallel divide-and-conquer
>>>> techniques. Since these systems are fronted by a high-level,
>>>> declarative language (SQL), their users are shielded from the
>>>> complexities of parallel programming. Parallel database systems have
>>>> been an extremely successful application of parallel computing, and
>>>> quite a number of commercial products exist today.
>>>>
>>>> In the distributed systems world, the Web brought a need to index and
>>>> query its huge content. SQL and relational databases were not the
>>>> answer, though shared-nothing clusters again emerged as the hardware
>>>> platform of choice. Google developed the Google File System (GFS) and
>>>> MapReduce programming model to allow programmers to store and process
>>>> Big Data by writing a few user-defined functions. The MapReduce
>>>> framework applies these functions in parallel to data instances in
>>>> distributed files (map) and to sorted groups of instances sharing a
>>>> common key (reduce) -- not unlike the partitioned parallelism in
>>>> parallel database systems. Apache's Hadoop MapReduce platform is the
>>>> most prominent implementation of this paradigm for the rest of the
>>>> Big Data community. On top of Hadoop and HDFS sit declarative
>>>> languages like Pig and Hive that each compile down to Hadoop
>>>> MapReduce jobs.
>>>>
>>>> The big Web companies were also challenged by extreme user bases
>>>> (100s of millions of users) and needed fast simple lookups and
>>>> updates to very large keyed data sets like user profiles. SQL
>>>> databases were deemed either too expensive or not scalable, so the
>>>> “NoSQL movement” was born. The ASF now has HBase and Cassandra, two
>>>> popular key-value stores, in this space. MongoDB and Couchbase are
>>>> other open source alternatives (document stores).
>>>>
>>>> It is evident from the rapidly growing popularity of "NoSQL" stores,
>>>> as well as the strong demand for Big Data analytics engines today,
>>>> that there is a strong (and growing!) need to store, process, *and*
>>>> query large volumes of semi-structured data in many application
>>>> areas. Until very recently, developers have had to ``choose'' between
>>>> using big data analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark,
>>>> which can do complex query processing and analysis over HDFS-resident
>>>> files, and flexible but low-function data stores like MongoDB or
>>>> Apache HBase. (The Apache Phoenix project,
>>>> http://phoenix.apache.org/, is a recent SQL-over-HBase effort that
>>>> aims to bridge between these choices.)
>>>>
>>>> AsterixDB is a highly scalable data management system that can store,
>>>> index, and manage semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but
>>>> it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
>>>> of SQL (and more). Unlike analytics engines like Hive or Spark, it
>>>> stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge of
>>>> data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always
>>>> scanning data set(s) to process queries. Somewhat surprisingly, there
>>>> is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise)
>>>> available to developers today -- AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
>>>> Since Apache is where the majority of the today's most important Big
>>>> Data technologies live, the ASF seems like the obvious home for a
>>>> system like AsterixDB.
>>>>
>>>> Current Status
>>>>
>>>> The current version of AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of
>>>> faculty, staff, and students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The
>>>> project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the
>>>> goal of which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel
>>>> database world, the then new Hadoop world, and the semi-structured
>>>> (e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation
>>>> BDMS. A first informal open source release was made four years later,
>>>> in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Meritocracy
>>>>
>>>> The current developers are familiar with meritocratic open source
>>>> development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because we want
>>>> to encourage this style of development for the project.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Community
>>>>
>>>> While AsterixDB started as a university project it has developed into
>>>> a community. A number of the initial committers started contributing
>>>> in academia and continue to actively participate and contribute after
>>>> graduation. And we seek to further develop developer and user
>>>> communities. One way to broaden the community that is ongoing is
>>>> through academic collaborations (currently with IIT Mumbai in India
>>>> and TU Berlin in Germany). During incubation we will also explicitly
>>>> seek increased industrial participation.
>>>>
>>>> Some indicators of the effort's development community and history can
>>>> be
>>>> found at:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.openhub.net/p/asterixdb/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_
>>>> mo
>>>> ,
>>>>
>>>> https://www.openhub.net/p/hyracks/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Core Developers
>>>>
>>>> The core developers of the project are diverse, although initially UC
>>>> Irvine heavy (roughly 50) due to the project's origins at UCI. The
>>>> other 50 are from other academic institutions (UC Riverside and the
>>>> Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and companies (Couchbase, Facebook,
>>>> IBM, KACST Saudi Arabia, Oracle, Saudi Aramco, X15 Software).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alignment
>>>>
>>>> Apache is, by far, the most natural home for taking the AsterixDB
>>>> project forward. A large fraction of today's top Big Data
>>>> technologies have their homes in Apache, including Hadoop, YARN, Pig,
>>>> Hive, Spark, Flink, HBase, Cassandra and others. AsterixDB fills a
>>>> significant gap -- the parallel data management system gap -- that
>>>> exists in the Big Data open source world. It is well-aligned with a
>>>> number of the Apache projects, e.g., it has strong support for
>>>> accessing and indexing external data in HDFS, and it uses YARN as an
>>>> answer to basic cluster resource management. AsterixDB also seeks to
>>>> achieve an Apache-style development model; it is seeking a broader
>>>> community of contributors and users in order to achieve its full
>>>> potential and value to the Big Data community.
>>>>
>>>> There are also a number of related Apache projects and dependencies
>>>> that will be mentioned below in the Relationships with Other Apache
>>>> products section.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Known Risks
>>>>
>>>> Orphaned products
>>>>
>>>> Given the current level of intellectual investment in AsterixDB, the
>>>> risk of the project being abandoned is very small. The UCI/UCR
>>>> faculty team leads are highly incentivized to continue development
>>>> since the database groups at UC Irvine and UC Riverside are both
>>>> reliant on AsterixDB as a platform for long-term graduate research
>>>> projects. UC San Diego is also beginning to contribute to the code
>>>> base, and a collaboration involving public health applications is
>>>> forming with UCLA. The work on AsterixDB is managed via a mix of
>>>> mailing list discussions supplemented by weekly project status
>>>> meetings which are summarized on the mailing list. Typical (local
>>>> plus Skype-in) attendance to the weekly status meetings runs at about
>>>> 20 active contributors.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Inexperience with Open Source
>>>>
>>>> AsterixDB and Hyracks were completely developed in Open Source under
>>>> the ASL 2.0. The source code repositories, issue tracker, and mailing
>>>> lists are available on Google Code and discussions and decisions
>>>> happen on the mailing lists (which is necessary due to the geographic
>>>> distribution of the current developers).
>>>>
>>>> Also a few of the initial committers have contributed to Apache
>>>> projects. Vinayak Borkar is a committer on the Apache Helix and
>>>> Apache VXQuery projects. Till Westmann is the VP VXQuery at the ASF
>>>> and an IPMC member. Preston Carman and Steven Jacobs are committers
>>>> on the Apache VXQuery project.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Relationships with Other Apache Products
>>>>
>>>> Apache VXQuery is based on the Hyracks data-parallel runtime, which
>>>> is also included in the AsterixDB code base.
>>>>
>>>> AsterixDB is closely related to Apache Hadoop. Included in AsterixDB
>>>> is support for accessing external data in HDFS (and Hive formats),
>>>> and resource management and system administration features are in the
>>>> process of being migrated to YARN.
>>>>
>>>> AsterixDB's AQL query facilities offer comparable query power to
>>>> Apache's Pig and Hive systems for big data analytics. AsterixDB
>>>> differs in storing and indexing data and thus being able to quickly
>>>> answer small and medium queries without large HDFS data scans -
>>>> thereby targeting a different class of use cases.
>>>>
>>>> AsterixDB's data storage and indexing facilities are similar to those
>>>> of HBase, but AsterixDB differs in being a much more complete and
>>>> queryable BDMS (not just a key-value style store).
>>>>
>>>> AsterixDB's target use cases are not in-memory processing or
>>>> iterative algorithm support, making AsterixDB complementary to the
>>>> Apache Spark platform. (Spark interoperability is on our longer-term
>>>> to-do wishlist.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Homogeneous Developers
>>>>
>>>> As mentioned before the current community is already organizationally
>>>> and geographically distributed - and we would like to increase the
>>>> heterogeneity.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Reliance on Salaried Developers
>>>>
>>>> Of the initial committers only 3 are full-time UCI staff. The other
>>>> committers are a mix of students, alumni who continue to contribute
>>>> to the effort, and individuals working with permission part-time (or
>>>> in spare time) on this project.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
>>>>
>>>> We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in
>>>> place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their
>>>> projects and provide exposure. While brand is important, our
>>>> fascination with it is not excessive. We believe that the ASF is the
>>>> right home for AsterixDB and that having AsterixDB inside of the ASF
>>>> will lead to a better long-term outcome for the Big Data community.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Documentation
>>>>
>>>> Documentation and publications related to AsterixDB can be found at
>>>> http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Initial Source
>>>>
>>>> Current source resides in Google code:
>>>> https://code.google.com/p/asterixdb/ (query language and upper system
>>>> layers) and https://code.google.com/p/hyracks/ (dataflow runtime
>>>> system and storage management libraries).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> External Dependencies
>>>>
>>>> AsterixDB depends on a number of Apache projects:
>>>>
>>>> - Ant
>>>> - Avro
>>>> - ApacheDB JDO
>>>> - Commons
>>>> - Derby
>>>> - Hadoop
>>>> - Hive
>>>> - HTTPComponents
>>>> - Jakarta ORO
>>>> - Maven
>>>> - Tomcat
>>>> - Thrift
>>>> - Velocity
>>>> - Wicket
>>>> - Xerces
>>>>
>>>> and other open source projects (organized by license):
>>>>
>>>> -- ASL 2.0:
>>>> - Jackson
>>>> - Google Guava
>>>> - Google Guice
>>>> - JSON-simple
>>>> - BoneCP
>>>> - Microsoft Azure SDK
>>>> - Netty
>>>> - Rome
>>>> - JetS3t
>>>> - Groovy
>>>> - Jettison
>>>> - Plexus
>>>> - Datanucleus (JDO)
>>>> - Jetty
>>>> - Twitter4J
>>>> - Snappy-java
>>>>
>>>> -- BSD:
>>>> - Antlr
>>>> - ObjectWeb ASM
>>>> - Protobuf
>>>> - JSCH
>>>> - JavaCC
>>>> - Paranamer
>>>> - JLine
>>>> - Stax
>>>> - StringTemplate
>>>> - xmlEnc
>>>>
>>>> -- MIT
>>>> - AppAssembler
>>>> - SimpleLog4J
>>>>
>>>> -- CDDL 1.0
>>>> - Java Activation Framework
>>>> - Java Transactions
>>>> - Java Servlet API
>>>> - Grizzly
>>>> - gmbal
>>>> - Glassfish
>>>>
>>>> -- CDDL 1.1
>>>> - Jersey
>>>> - JAXB Reference Implementation
>>>>
>>>> -- JSON License
>>>> - JSON
>>>>
>>>> -- EPL 1.0
>>>> - JUnit
>>>>
>>>> -- JDOM License
>>>> - JDOM
>>>>
>>>> -- Public Domain
>>>> - xz
>>>> - AOPAlliance
>>>>
>>>> As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the
>>>> external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Required Resources
>>>>
>>>> Developer and user mailing lists
>>>>
>>>> private@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org (with moderated subscriptions)
>>>> commits@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>>> dev@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>>> users@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A git repository
>>>>
>>>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-asterixdb.git
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A JIRA issue tracker
>>>>
>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Initial Committers
>>>>
>>>> The following is a list of the planned initial Apache committers (the
>>>> active subset of the committers for the current repository at Google
>>>> code).
>>>>
>>>> Abdullah Alamoudi (bamousaa@gmail.com)
>>>> Cameron Samak (eufery@gmail.com)
>>>> Chen Li (chenli@gmail.com)
>>>> Ian Maxon (imaxon@uci.edu)
>>>> Ildar Absalyamov (ildar.absalyamov@gmail.com)
>>>> Jianfeng Jia (jianfeng.jia@gmail.com)
>>>> Karen Ouaknine (kereno@gmail.com)
>>>> Markus Dreseler (apache@dreseler.de)
>>>> Mike Carey (dtabass@apache.org)
>>>> Murtadha Hubail (hubailmor@gmail.com)
>>>> Pouria Pirzadeh (pouria.pirzadeh@gmail.com)
>>>> Preston Carman (prestonc@apache.org)
>>>> Raman Grover (RamanGrover29@gmail.com)
>>>> Sattam Alsubaiee (salsubaiee@gmail.com)
>>>> Steven Jacobs (sjaco002@apache.org)
>>>> Taewoo Kim (wangsaeu@gmail.com)
>>>> Till Westmann (tillw@apache.org)
>>>> Vinayak Borkar (vinayakb@apache.org)
>>>> Yingyi Bu (buyingyi@gmail.com)
>>>> Young-Seok Kim (kisskys@gmail.com)
>>>> Zach Heilbron (zheilbron@gmail.com)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Affiliations
>>>>
>>>> UC Irvine
>>>> - Mike Carey
>>>> - Chen Li
>>>> - Ian Maxon
>>>> - Yingyi Bu
>>>> - Raman Grover
>>>> - Pouria Pirzadeh
>>>> - Young-Seok Kim
>>>> - Cameron Samak
>>>> - Taewoo Kim
>>>> - Jianfeng Jia
>>>> - Murtadha Hubail
>>>> - Markus Dreseler
>>>>
>>>> UC Riverside
>>>> - Ildar Absalyamov
>>>> - Preston Carman
>>>> - Steven Jacobs
>>>>
>>>> Hebrew University
>>>> - Keren Ouaknine
>>>>
>>>> Oracle
>>>> - Till Westmann
>>>>
>>>> X15 Software
>>>> - Vinayak Borkar
>>>> - Zach Heilbron
>>>>
>>>> KACST Saudi Arabia
>>>> - Sattam Alsubaiee
>>>>
>>>> Saudi Aramco
>>>> - Abdullah Alamoudi
>>>>
>>>> Carey, Li, and Maxon are full-time UCI staff, with the remaining UCI
>>>> (UC Irvine) and UCR (UC Riverside) affiliates being students. The
>>>> non-UC committers are a mix of alumni who continue to contribute to
>>>> the effort and individuals working with permission part-time (or in
>>>> spare time) on this project.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sponsors
>>>>
>>>> Champion
>>>>
>>>> Chris Mattmann (NASA/JPL)
>>>>
>>>> Nominated Mentors
>>>>
>>>> TBD
>>>>
>>>> Sponsoring Entity
>>>>
>>>> The Apache Incubator
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>>>> Chief Architect
>>>> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
>>>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>>>> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
>>>> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
>>>> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
>>>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

["Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Thank you Ate! I have added you as a mentor on the proposal!

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AsterixDBProposal

Cheers,
Chris

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Chief Architect
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ate Douma <at...@douma.nu>
Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
Date: Monday, February 23, 2015 at 6:47 AM
To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
Cc: Michael Carey <dt...@gmail.com>, Ian Maxon <im...@uci.edu>, Till
Westmann <ti...@westmann.org>
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

>+1 (binding)
>
>Very interesting.
>And if you still like or need another mentor, I'd be willing to help out.
>
>Ate
>
>On 2015-02-20 06:38, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> OK, discussion has died down on this thread. I was originally
>> suggesting that the pTLP option may be best for this community,
>> but after some discussions with the existing community of
>> AsterixDB’ers proposing to bring the project here to the ASF,
>> AsterixDB would like to move forward independent of whatever
>> comes of the pTLP discussions.
>>
>> That said, I would like to propose Apache AsterixDB as an
>> Incubator project. I am now calling a VOTE to accept AsterixDB
>> into the Apache Incubator. This VOTE will run for at least 72 hours.
>>
>> [ ] +1 Accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator
>> [ ] +0 Don’t care.
>> [ ] -1 Don’t accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator because..
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback so far and looking forward to the VOTE!
>>
>> You can count my binding +1.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>> Chief Architect
>> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
>> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
>> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <Ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>
>> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM
>> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
>> Cc: Michael Carey <dt...@gmail.com>, Ian Maxon <im...@uci.edu>, Till
>> Westmann <ti...@westmann.org>
>> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Apache AsterixDB Incubator
>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I am pleased to bring forth the Apache AsterixDB proposal to the
>>> Apache Incubator as Champion, working in collaboration with the
>>> team. Please find the wiki proposal here:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AsterixDBProposal
>>>
>>>
>>> Full text of the proposal is below. Please discuss and enjoy. I’ll
>>> leave the discussion open for a week, and then look to call a VOTE
>>> hopefully end of next week if all is well.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> Chris Mattmann
>>>
>>> =============================================================
>>> Apache AsterixDB Proposal
>>>
>>> Abstract
>>>
>>> Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
>>> provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large
>>> collections of semi-structured data.
>>>
>>> Proposal
>>>
>>> AsterixDB is a big data management system (BDMS) that makes it
>>> well-suited to needs such as web data warehousing and social data
>>> storage and analysis. Feature-wise, AsterixDB has:
>>>
>>> * A NoSQL style data model (ADM) based on extending JSON with object
>>>   database concepts.
>>> * An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) for querying
>>>   semi-structured data.
>>> * A runtime query execution engine, Hyracks, for partitioned-parallel
>>>   execution of query plans.
>>> * Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing for efficient
>>>   ingestion of newly arriving data.
>>> * Support for querying and indexing external data (e.g., in HDFS) as
>>>   well as data stored within AsterixDB.
>>> * A rich set of primitive data types, including support for spatial,
>>>   temporal, and textual data.
>>> * Indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted
>>>   keyword index support.
>>> * Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to
>>>   those of a NoSQL store.
>>>
>>>
>>> Background and Rationale
>>>
>>> In the world of relational databases, the need to tackle data volumes
>>> that exceed the capabilities of a single server led to the
>>> development of “shared-nothing” parallel database systems several
>>> decades ago. These systems spread data over a cluster based on a
>>> partitioning strategy, such as hash partitioning, and queries are
>>> processed by employing partitioned-parallel divide-and-conquer
>>> techniques. Since these systems are fronted by a high-level,
>>> declarative language (SQL), their users are shielded from the
>>> complexities of parallel programming. Parallel database systems have
>>> been an extremely successful application of parallel computing, and
>>> quite a number of commercial products exist today.
>>>
>>> In the distributed systems world, the Web brought a need to index and
>>> query its huge content. SQL and relational databases were not the
>>> answer, though shared-nothing clusters again emerged as the hardware
>>> platform of choice. Google developed the Google File System (GFS) and
>>> MapReduce programming model to allow programmers to store and process
>>> Big Data by writing a few user-defined functions. The MapReduce
>>> framework applies these functions in parallel to data instances in
>>> distributed files (map) and to sorted groups of instances sharing a
>>> common key (reduce) -- not unlike the partitioned parallelism in
>>> parallel database systems. Apache's Hadoop MapReduce platform is the
>>> most prominent implementation of this paradigm for the rest of the
>>> Big Data community. On top of Hadoop and HDFS sit declarative
>>> languages like Pig and Hive that each compile down to Hadoop
>>> MapReduce jobs.
>>>
>>> The big Web companies were also challenged by extreme user bases
>>> (100s of millions of users) and needed fast simple lookups and
>>> updates to very large keyed data sets like user profiles. SQL
>>> databases were deemed either too expensive or not scalable, so the
>>> “NoSQL movement” was born. The ASF now has HBase and Cassandra, two
>>> popular key-value stores, in this space. MongoDB and Couchbase are
>>> other open source alternatives (document stores).
>>>
>>> It is evident from the rapidly growing popularity of "NoSQL" stores,
>>> as well as the strong demand for Big Data analytics engines today,
>>> that there is a strong (and growing!) need to store, process, *and*
>>> query large volumes of semi-structured data in many application
>>> areas. Until very recently, developers have had to ``choose'' between
>>> using big data analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark,
>>> which can do complex query processing and analysis over HDFS-resident
>>> files, and flexible but low-function data stores like MongoDB or
>>> Apache HBase. (The Apache Phoenix project,
>>> http://phoenix.apache.org/, is a recent SQL-over-HBase effort that
>>> aims to bridge between these choices.)
>>>
>>> AsterixDB is a highly scalable data management system that can store,
>>> index, and manage semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but
>>> it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
>>> of SQL (and more). Unlike analytics engines like Hive or Spark, it
>>> stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge of
>>> data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always
>>> scanning data set(s) to process queries. Somewhat surprisingly, there
>>> is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise)
>>> available to developers today -- AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
>>> Since Apache is where the majority of the today's most important Big
>>> Data technologies live, the ASF seems like the obvious home for a
>>> system like AsterixDB.
>>>
>>> Current Status
>>>
>>> The current version of AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of
>>> faculty, staff, and students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The
>>> project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the
>>> goal of which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel
>>> database world, the then new Hadoop world, and the semi-structured
>>> (e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation
>>> BDMS. A first informal open source release was made four years later,
>>> in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0.
>>>
>>>
>>> Meritocracy
>>>
>>> The current developers are familiar with meritocratic open source
>>> development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because we want
>>> to encourage this style of development for the project.
>>>
>>>
>>> Community
>>>
>>> While AsterixDB started as a university project it has developed into
>>> a community. A number of the initial committers started contributing
>>> in academia and continue to actively participate and contribute after
>>> graduation. And we seek to further develop developer and user
>>> communities. One way to broaden the community that is ongoing is
>>> through academic collaborations (currently with IIT Mumbai in India
>>> and TU Berlin in Germany). During incubation we will also explicitly
>>> seek increased industrial participation.
>>>
>>> Some indicators of the effort's development community and history can
>>> be
>>> found at:
>>> 
>>>https://www.openhub.net/p/asterixdb/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_
>>>mo
>>> ,
>>> 
>>>https://www.openhub.net/p/hyracks/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>>>
>>>
>>> Core Developers
>>>
>>> The core developers of the project are diverse, although initially UC
>>> Irvine heavy (roughly 50) due to the project's origins at UCI. The
>>> other 50 are from other academic institutions (UC Riverside and the
>>> Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and companies (Couchbase, Facebook,
>>> IBM, KACST Saudi Arabia, Oracle, Saudi Aramco, X15 Software).
>>>
>>>
>>> Alignment
>>>
>>> Apache is, by far, the most natural home for taking the AsterixDB
>>> project forward. A large fraction of today's top Big Data
>>> technologies have their homes in Apache, including Hadoop, YARN, Pig,
>>> Hive, Spark, Flink, HBase, Cassandra and others. AsterixDB fills a
>>> significant gap -- the parallel data management system gap -- that
>>> exists in the Big Data open source world. It is well-aligned with a
>>> number of the Apache projects, e.g., it has strong support for
>>> accessing and indexing external data in HDFS, and it uses YARN as an
>>> answer to basic cluster resource management. AsterixDB also seeks to
>>> achieve an Apache-style development model; it is seeking a broader
>>> community of contributors and users in order to achieve its full
>>> potential and value to the Big Data community.
>>>
>>> There are also a number of related Apache projects and dependencies
>>> that will be mentioned below in the Relationships with Other Apache
>>> products section.
>>>
>>>
>>> Known Risks
>>>
>>> Orphaned products
>>>
>>> Given the current level of intellectual investment in AsterixDB, the
>>> risk of the project being abandoned is very small. The UCI/UCR
>>> faculty team leads are highly incentivized to continue development
>>> since the database groups at UC Irvine and UC Riverside are both
>>> reliant on AsterixDB as a platform for long-term graduate research
>>> projects. UC San Diego is also beginning to contribute to the code
>>> base, and a collaboration involving public health applications is
>>> forming with UCLA. The work on AsterixDB is managed via a mix of
>>> mailing list discussions supplemented by weekly project status
>>> meetings which are summarized on the mailing list. Typical (local
>>> plus Skype-in) attendance to the weekly status meetings runs at about
>>> 20 active contributors.
>>>
>>>
>>> Inexperience with Open Source
>>>
>>> AsterixDB and Hyracks were completely developed in Open Source under
>>> the ASL 2.0. The source code repositories, issue tracker, and mailing
>>> lists are available on Google Code and discussions and decisions
>>> happen on the mailing lists (which is necessary due to the geographic
>>> distribution of the current developers).
>>>
>>> Also a few of the initial committers have contributed to Apache
>>> projects. Vinayak Borkar is a committer on the Apache Helix and
>>> Apache VXQuery projects. Till Westmann is the VP VXQuery at the ASF
>>> and an IPMC member. Preston Carman and Steven Jacobs are committers
>>> on the Apache VXQuery project.
>>>
>>>
>>> Relationships with Other Apache Products
>>>
>>> Apache VXQuery is based on the Hyracks data-parallel runtime, which
>>> is also included in the AsterixDB code base.
>>>
>>> AsterixDB is closely related to Apache Hadoop. Included in AsterixDB
>>> is support for accessing external data in HDFS (and Hive formats),
>>> and resource management and system administration features are in the
>>> process of being migrated to YARN.
>>>
>>> AsterixDB's AQL query facilities offer comparable query power to
>>> Apache's Pig and Hive systems for big data analytics. AsterixDB
>>> differs in storing and indexing data and thus being able to quickly
>>> answer small and medium queries without large HDFS data scans -
>>> thereby targeting a different class of use cases.
>>>
>>> AsterixDB's data storage and indexing facilities are similar to those
>>> of HBase, but AsterixDB differs in being a much more complete and
>>> queryable BDMS (not just a key-value style store).
>>>
>>> AsterixDB's target use cases are not in-memory processing or
>>> iterative algorithm support, making AsterixDB complementary to the
>>> Apache Spark platform. (Spark interoperability is on our longer-term
>>> to-do wishlist.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Homogeneous Developers
>>>
>>> As mentioned before the current community is already organizationally
>>> and geographically distributed - and we would like to increase the
>>> heterogeneity.
>>>
>>>
>>> Reliance on Salaried Developers
>>>
>>> Of the initial committers only 3 are full-time UCI staff. The other
>>> committers are a mix of students, alumni who continue to contribute
>>> to the effort, and individuals working with permission part-time (or
>>> in spare time) on this project.
>>>
>>>
>>> A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
>>>
>>> We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in
>>> place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their
>>> projects and provide exposure. While brand is important, our
>>> fascination with it is not excessive. We believe that the ASF is the
>>> right home for AsterixDB and that having AsterixDB inside of the ASF
>>> will lead to a better long-term outcome for the Big Data community.
>>>
>>>
>>> Documentation
>>>
>>> Documentation and publications related to AsterixDB can be found at
>>> http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/.
>>>
>>>
>>> Initial Source
>>>
>>> Current source resides in Google code:
>>> https://code.google.com/p/asterixdb/ (query language and upper system
>>> layers) and https://code.google.com/p/hyracks/ (dataflow runtime
>>> system and storage management libraries).
>>>
>>>
>>> External Dependencies
>>>
>>> AsterixDB depends on a number of Apache projects:
>>>
>>> - Ant
>>> - Avro
>>> - ApacheDB JDO
>>> - Commons
>>> - Derby
>>> - Hadoop
>>> - Hive
>>> - HTTPComponents
>>> - Jakarta ORO
>>> - Maven
>>> - Tomcat
>>> - Thrift
>>> - Velocity
>>> - Wicket
>>> - Xerces
>>>
>>> and other open source projects (organized by license):
>>>
>>> -- ASL 2.0:
>>> - Jackson
>>> - Google Guava
>>> - Google Guice
>>> - JSON-simple
>>> - BoneCP
>>> - Microsoft Azure SDK
>>> - Netty
>>> - Rome
>>> - JetS3t
>>> - Groovy
>>> - Jettison
>>> - Plexus
>>> - Datanucleus (JDO)
>>> - Jetty
>>> - Twitter4J
>>> - Snappy-java
>>>
>>> -- BSD:
>>> - Antlr
>>> - ObjectWeb ASM
>>> - Protobuf
>>> - JSCH
>>> - JavaCC
>>> - Paranamer
>>> - JLine
>>> - Stax
>>> - StringTemplate
>>> - xmlEnc
>>>
>>> -- MIT
>>> - AppAssembler
>>> - SimpleLog4J
>>>
>>> -- CDDL 1.0
>>> - Java Activation Framework
>>> - Java Transactions
>>> - Java Servlet API
>>> - Grizzly
>>> - gmbal
>>> - Glassfish
>>>
>>> -- CDDL 1.1
>>> - Jersey
>>> - JAXB Reference Implementation
>>>
>>> -- JSON License
>>> - JSON
>>>
>>> -- EPL 1.0
>>> - JUnit
>>>
>>> -- JDOM License
>>> - JDOM
>>>
>>> -- Public Domain
>>> - xz
>>> - AOPAlliance
>>>
>>> As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the
>>> external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution.
>>>
>>>
>>> Required Resources
>>>
>>> Developer and user mailing lists
>>>
>>> private@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org (with moderated subscriptions)
>>> commits@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>> dev@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>> users@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>>
>>>
>>> A git repository
>>>
>>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-asterixdb.git
>>>
>>>
>>> A JIRA issue tracker
>>>
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB
>>>
>>>
>>> Initial Committers
>>>
>>> The following is a list of the planned initial Apache committers (the
>>> active subset of the committers for the current repository at Google
>>> code).
>>>
>>> Abdullah Alamoudi (bamousaa@gmail.com)
>>> Cameron Samak (eufery@gmail.com)
>>> Chen Li (chenli@gmail.com)
>>> Ian Maxon (imaxon@uci.edu)
>>> Ildar Absalyamov (ildar.absalyamov@gmail.com)
>>> Jianfeng Jia (jianfeng.jia@gmail.com)
>>> Karen Ouaknine (kereno@gmail.com)
>>> Markus Dreseler (apache@dreseler.de)
>>> Mike Carey (dtabass@apache.org)
>>> Murtadha Hubail (hubailmor@gmail.com)
>>> Pouria Pirzadeh (pouria.pirzadeh@gmail.com)
>>> Preston Carman (prestonc@apache.org)
>>> Raman Grover (RamanGrover29@gmail.com)
>>> Sattam Alsubaiee (salsubaiee@gmail.com)
>>> Steven Jacobs (sjaco002@apache.org)
>>> Taewoo Kim (wangsaeu@gmail.com)
>>> Till Westmann (tillw@apache.org)
>>> Vinayak Borkar (vinayakb@apache.org)
>>> Yingyi Bu (buyingyi@gmail.com)
>>> Young-Seok Kim (kisskys@gmail.com)
>>> Zach Heilbron (zheilbron@gmail.com)
>>>
>>>
>>> Affiliations
>>>
>>> UC Irvine
>>> - Mike Carey
>>> - Chen Li
>>> - Ian Maxon
>>> - Yingyi Bu
>>> - Raman Grover
>>> - Pouria Pirzadeh
>>> - Young-Seok Kim
>>> - Cameron Samak
>>> - Taewoo Kim
>>> - Jianfeng Jia
>>> - Murtadha Hubail
>>> - Markus Dreseler
>>>
>>> UC Riverside
>>> - Ildar Absalyamov
>>> - Preston Carman
>>> - Steven Jacobs
>>>
>>> Hebrew University
>>> - Keren Ouaknine
>>>
>>> Oracle
>>> - Till Westmann
>>>
>>> X15 Software
>>> - Vinayak Borkar
>>> - Zach Heilbron
>>>
>>> KACST Saudi Arabia
>>> - Sattam Alsubaiee
>>>
>>> Saudi Aramco
>>> - Abdullah Alamoudi
>>>
>>> Carey, Li, and Maxon are full-time UCI staff, with the remaining UCI
>>> (UC Irvine) and UCR (UC Riverside) affiliates being students. The
>>> non-UC committers are a mix of alumni who continue to contribute to
>>> the effort and individuals working with permission part-time (or in
>>> spare time) on this project.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sponsors
>>>
>>> Champion
>>>
>>> Chris Mattmann (NASA/JPL)
>>>
>>> Nominated Mentors
>>>
>>> TBD
>>>
>>> Sponsoring Entity
>>>
>>> The Apache Incubator
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>>> Chief Architect
>>> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
>>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>>> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
>>> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
>>> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
>>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

[Ate Douma <at...@douma.nu>]

+1 (binding)

Very interesting.
And if you still like or need another mentor, I'd be willing to help out.

Ate

On 2015-02-20 06:38, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> OK, discussion has died down on this thread. I was originally
> suggesting that the pTLP option may be best for this community,
> but after some discussions with the existing community of
> AsterixDB’ers proposing to bring the project here to the ASF,
> AsterixDB would like to move forward independent of whatever
> comes of the pTLP discussions.
>
> That said, I would like to propose Apache AsterixDB as an
> Incubator project. I am now calling a VOTE to accept AsterixDB
> into the Apache Incubator. This VOTE will run for at least 72 hours.
>
> [ ] +1 Accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator
> [ ] +0 Don’t care.
> [ ] -1 Don’t accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator because..
>
> Thanks for the feedback so far and looking forward to the VOTE!
>
> You can count my binding +1.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
> Chief Architect
> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <Ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>
> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM
> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
> Cc: Michael Carey <dt...@gmail.com>, Ian Maxon <im...@uci.edu>, Till
> Westmann <ti...@westmann.org>
> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Apache AsterixDB Incubator
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am pleased to bring forth the Apache AsterixDB proposal to the
>> Apache Incubator as Champion, working in collaboration with the
>> team. Please find the wiki proposal here:
>>
>> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AsterixDBProposal
>>
>>
>> Full text of the proposal is below. Please discuss and enjoy. I’ll
>> leave the discussion open for a week, and then look to call a VOTE
>> hopefully end of next week if all is well.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Chris Mattmann
>>
>> =============================================================
>> Apache AsterixDB Proposal
>>
>> Abstract
>>
>> Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
>> provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large
>> collections of semi-structured data.
>>
>> Proposal
>>
>> AsterixDB is a big data management system (BDMS) that makes it
>> well-suited to needs such as web data warehousing and social data
>> storage and analysis. Feature-wise, AsterixDB has:
>>
>> * A NoSQL style data model (ADM) based on extending JSON with object
>>   database concepts.
>> * An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) for querying
>>   semi-structured data.
>> * A runtime query execution engine, Hyracks, for partitioned-parallel
>>   execution of query plans.
>> * Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing for efficient
>>   ingestion of newly arriving data.
>> * Support for querying and indexing external data (e.g., in HDFS) as
>>   well as data stored within AsterixDB.
>> * A rich set of primitive data types, including support for spatial,
>>   temporal, and textual data.
>> * Indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted
>>   keyword index support.
>> * Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to
>>   those of a NoSQL store.
>>
>>
>> Background and Rationale
>>
>> In the world of relational databases, the need to tackle data volumes
>> that exceed the capabilities of a single server led to the
>> development of “shared-nothing” parallel database systems several
>> decades ago. These systems spread data over a cluster based on a
>> partitioning strategy, such as hash partitioning, and queries are
>> processed by employing partitioned-parallel divide-and-conquer
>> techniques. Since these systems are fronted by a high-level,
>> declarative language (SQL), their users are shielded from the
>> complexities of parallel programming. Parallel database systems have
>> been an extremely successful application of parallel computing, and
>> quite a number of commercial products exist today.
>>
>> In the distributed systems world, the Web brought a need to index and
>> query its huge content. SQL and relational databases were not the
>> answer, though shared-nothing clusters again emerged as the hardware
>> platform of choice. Google developed the Google File System (GFS) and
>> MapReduce programming model to allow programmers to store and process
>> Big Data by writing a few user-defined functions. The MapReduce
>> framework applies these functions in parallel to data instances in
>> distributed files (map) and to sorted groups of instances sharing a
>> common key (reduce) -- not unlike the partitioned parallelism in
>> parallel database systems. Apache's Hadoop MapReduce platform is the
>> most prominent implementation of this paradigm for the rest of the
>> Big Data community. On top of Hadoop and HDFS sit declarative
>> languages like Pig and Hive that each compile down to Hadoop
>> MapReduce jobs.
>>
>> The big Web companies were also challenged by extreme user bases
>> (100s of millions of users) and needed fast simple lookups and
>> updates to very large keyed data sets like user profiles. SQL
>> databases were deemed either too expensive or not scalable, so the
>> “NoSQL movement” was born. The ASF now has HBase and Cassandra, two
>> popular key-value stores, in this space. MongoDB and Couchbase are
>> other open source alternatives (document stores).
>>
>> It is evident from the rapidly growing popularity of "NoSQL" stores,
>> as well as the strong demand for Big Data analytics engines today,
>> that there is a strong (and growing!) need to store, process, *and*
>> query large volumes of semi-structured data in many application
>> areas. Until very recently, developers have had to ``choose'' between
>> using big data analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark,
>> which can do complex query processing and analysis over HDFS-resident
>> files, and flexible but low-function data stores like MongoDB or
>> Apache HBase. (The Apache Phoenix project,
>> http://phoenix.apache.org/, is a recent SQL-over-HBase effort that
>> aims to bridge between these choices.)
>>
>> AsterixDB is a highly scalable data management system that can store,
>> index, and manage semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but
>> it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
>> of SQL (and more). Unlike analytics engines like Hive or Spark, it
>> stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge of
>> data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always
>> scanning data set(s) to process queries. Somewhat surprisingly, there
>> is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise)
>> available to developers today -- AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
>> Since Apache is where the majority of the today's most important Big
>> Data technologies live, the ASF seems like the obvious home for a
>> system like AsterixDB.
>>
>> Current Status
>>
>> The current version of AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of
>> faculty, staff, and students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The
>> project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the
>> goal of which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel
>> database world, the then new Hadoop world, and the semi-structured
>> (e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation
>> BDMS. A first informal open source release was made four years later,
>> in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0.
>>
>>
>> Meritocracy
>>
>> The current developers are familiar with meritocratic open source
>> development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because we want
>> to encourage this style of development for the project.
>>
>>
>> Community
>>
>> While AsterixDB started as a university project it has developed into
>> a community. A number of the initial committers started contributing
>> in academia and continue to actively participate and contribute after
>> graduation. And we seek to further develop developer and user
>> communities. One way to broaden the community that is ongoing is
>> through academic collaborations (currently with IIT Mumbai in India
>> and TU Berlin in Germany). During incubation we will also explicitly
>> seek increased industrial participation.
>>
>> Some indicators of the effort's development community and history can
>> be
>> found at:
>> https://www.openhub.net/p/asterixdb/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>> ,
>> https://www.openhub.net/p/hyracks/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>>
>>
>> Core Developers
>>
>> The core developers of the project are diverse, although initially UC
>> Irvine heavy (roughly 50) due to the project's origins at UCI. The
>> other 50 are from other academic institutions (UC Riverside and the
>> Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and companies (Couchbase, Facebook,
>> IBM, KACST Saudi Arabia, Oracle, Saudi Aramco, X15 Software).
>>
>>
>> Alignment
>>
>> Apache is, by far, the most natural home for taking the AsterixDB
>> project forward. A large fraction of today's top Big Data
>> technologies have their homes in Apache, including Hadoop, YARN, Pig,
>> Hive, Spark, Flink, HBase, Cassandra and others. AsterixDB fills a
>> significant gap -- the parallel data management system gap -- that
>> exists in the Big Data open source world. It is well-aligned with a
>> number of the Apache projects, e.g., it has strong support for
>> accessing and indexing external data in HDFS, and it uses YARN as an
>> answer to basic cluster resource management. AsterixDB also seeks to
>> achieve an Apache-style development model; it is seeking a broader
>> community of contributors and users in order to achieve its full
>> potential and value to the Big Data community.
>>
>> There are also a number of related Apache projects and dependencies
>> that will be mentioned below in the Relationships with Other Apache
>> products section.
>>
>>
>> Known Risks
>>
>> Orphaned products
>>
>> Given the current level of intellectual investment in AsterixDB, the
>> risk of the project being abandoned is very small. The UCI/UCR
>> faculty team leads are highly incentivized to continue development
>> since the database groups at UC Irvine and UC Riverside are both
>> reliant on AsterixDB as a platform for long-term graduate research
>> projects. UC San Diego is also beginning to contribute to the code
>> base, and a collaboration involving public health applications is
>> forming with UCLA. The work on AsterixDB is managed via a mix of
>> mailing list discussions supplemented by weekly project status
>> meetings which are summarized on the mailing list. Typical (local
>> plus Skype-in) attendance to the weekly status meetings runs at about
>> 20 active contributors.
>>
>>
>> Inexperience with Open Source
>>
>> AsterixDB and Hyracks were completely developed in Open Source under
>> the ASL 2.0. The source code repositories, issue tracker, and mailing
>> lists are available on Google Code and discussions and decisions
>> happen on the mailing lists (which is necessary due to the geographic
>> distribution of the current developers).
>>
>> Also a few of the initial committers have contributed to Apache
>> projects. Vinayak Borkar is a committer on the Apache Helix and
>> Apache VXQuery projects. Till Westmann is the VP VXQuery at the ASF
>> and an IPMC member. Preston Carman and Steven Jacobs are committers
>> on the Apache VXQuery project.
>>
>>
>> Relationships with Other Apache Products
>>
>> Apache VXQuery is based on the Hyracks data-parallel runtime, which
>> is also included in the AsterixDB code base.
>>
>> AsterixDB is closely related to Apache Hadoop. Included in AsterixDB
>> is support for accessing external data in HDFS (and Hive formats),
>> and resource management and system administration features are in the
>> process of being migrated to YARN.
>>
>> AsterixDB's AQL query facilities offer comparable query power to
>> Apache's Pig and Hive systems for big data analytics. AsterixDB
>> differs in storing and indexing data and thus being able to quickly
>> answer small and medium queries without large HDFS data scans -
>> thereby targeting a different class of use cases.
>>
>> AsterixDB's data storage and indexing facilities are similar to those
>> of HBase, but AsterixDB differs in being a much more complete and
>> queryable BDMS (not just a key-value style store).
>>
>> AsterixDB's target use cases are not in-memory processing or
>> iterative algorithm support, making AsterixDB complementary to the
>> Apache Spark platform. (Spark interoperability is on our longer-term
>> to-do wishlist.)
>>
>>
>> Homogeneous Developers
>>
>> As mentioned before the current community is already organizationally
>> and geographically distributed - and we would like to increase the
>> heterogeneity.
>>
>>
>> Reliance on Salaried Developers
>>
>> Of the initial committers only 3 are full-time UCI staff. The other
>> committers are a mix of students, alumni who continue to contribute
>> to the effort, and individuals working with permission part-time (or
>> in spare time) on this project.
>>
>>
>> A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
>>
>> We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in
>> place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their
>> projects and provide exposure. While brand is important, our
>> fascination with it is not excessive. We believe that the ASF is the
>> right home for AsterixDB and that having AsterixDB inside of the ASF
>> will lead to a better long-term outcome for the Big Data community.
>>
>>
>> Documentation
>>
>> Documentation and publications related to AsterixDB can be found at
>> http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/.
>>
>>
>> Initial Source
>>
>> Current source resides in Google code:
>> https://code.google.com/p/asterixdb/ (query language and upper system
>> layers) and https://code.google.com/p/hyracks/ (dataflow runtime
>> system and storage management libraries).
>>
>>
>> External Dependencies
>>
>> AsterixDB depends on a number of Apache projects:
>>
>> - Ant
>> - Avro
>> - ApacheDB JDO
>> - Commons
>> - Derby
>> - Hadoop
>> - Hive
>> - HTTPComponents
>> - Jakarta ORO
>> - Maven
>> - Tomcat
>> - Thrift
>> - Velocity
>> - Wicket
>> - Xerces
>>
>> and other open source projects (organized by license):
>>
>> -- ASL 2.0:
>> - Jackson
>> - Google Guava
>> - Google Guice
>> - JSON-simple
>> - BoneCP
>> - Microsoft Azure SDK
>> - Netty
>> - Rome
>> - JetS3t
>> - Groovy
>> - Jettison
>> - Plexus
>> - Datanucleus (JDO)
>> - Jetty
>> - Twitter4J
>> - Snappy-java
>>
>> -- BSD:
>> - Antlr
>> - ObjectWeb ASM
>> - Protobuf
>> - JSCH
>> - JavaCC
>> - Paranamer
>> - JLine
>> - Stax
>> - StringTemplate
>> - xmlEnc
>>
>> -- MIT
>> - AppAssembler
>> - SimpleLog4J
>>
>> -- CDDL 1.0
>> - Java Activation Framework
>> - Java Transactions
>> - Java Servlet API
>> - Grizzly
>> - gmbal
>> - Glassfish
>>
>> -- CDDL 1.1
>> - Jersey
>> - JAXB Reference Implementation
>>
>> -- JSON License
>> - JSON
>>
>> -- EPL 1.0
>> - JUnit
>>
>> -- JDOM License
>> - JDOM
>>
>> -- Public Domain
>> - xz
>> - AOPAlliance
>>
>> As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the
>> external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution.
>>
>>
>> Required Resources
>>
>> Developer and user mailing lists
>>
>> private@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org (with moderated subscriptions)
>> commits@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>> dev@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>> users@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>
>>
>> A git repository
>>
>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-asterixdb.git
>>
>>
>> A JIRA issue tracker
>>
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB
>>
>>
>> Initial Committers
>>
>> The following is a list of the planned initial Apache committers (the
>> active subset of the committers for the current repository at Google
>> code).
>>
>> Abdullah Alamoudi (bamousaa@gmail.com)
>> Cameron Samak (eufery@gmail.com)
>> Chen Li (chenli@gmail.com)
>> Ian Maxon (imaxon@uci.edu)
>> Ildar Absalyamov (ildar.absalyamov@gmail.com)
>> Jianfeng Jia (jianfeng.jia@gmail.com)
>> Karen Ouaknine (kereno@gmail.com)
>> Markus Dreseler (apache@dreseler.de)
>> Mike Carey (dtabass@apache.org)
>> Murtadha Hubail (hubailmor@gmail.com)
>> Pouria Pirzadeh (pouria.pirzadeh@gmail.com)
>> Preston Carman (prestonc@apache.org)
>> Raman Grover (RamanGrover29@gmail.com)
>> Sattam Alsubaiee (salsubaiee@gmail.com)
>> Steven Jacobs (sjaco002@apache.org)
>> Taewoo Kim (wangsaeu@gmail.com)
>> Till Westmann (tillw@apache.org)
>> Vinayak Borkar (vinayakb@apache.org)
>> Yingyi Bu (buyingyi@gmail.com)
>> Young-Seok Kim (kisskys@gmail.com)
>> Zach Heilbron (zheilbron@gmail.com)
>>
>>
>> Affiliations
>>
>> UC Irvine
>> - Mike Carey
>> - Chen Li
>> - Ian Maxon
>> - Yingyi Bu
>> - Raman Grover
>> - Pouria Pirzadeh
>> - Young-Seok Kim
>> - Cameron Samak
>> - Taewoo Kim
>> - Jianfeng Jia
>> - Murtadha Hubail
>> - Markus Dreseler
>>
>> UC Riverside
>> - Ildar Absalyamov
>> - Preston Carman
>> - Steven Jacobs
>>
>> Hebrew University
>> - Keren Ouaknine
>>
>> Oracle
>> - Till Westmann
>>
>> X15 Software
>> - Vinayak Borkar
>> - Zach Heilbron
>>
>> KACST Saudi Arabia
>> - Sattam Alsubaiee
>>
>> Saudi Aramco
>> - Abdullah Alamoudi
>>
>> Carey, Li, and Maxon are full-time UCI staff, with the remaining UCI
>> (UC Irvine) and UCR (UC Riverside) affiliates being students. The
>> non-UC committers are a mix of alumni who continue to contribute to
>> the effort and individuals working with permission part-time (or in
>> spare time) on this project.
>>
>>
>> Sponsors
>>
>> Champion
>>
>> Chris Mattmann (NASA/JPL)
>>
>> Nominated Mentors
>>
>> TBD
>>
>> Sponsoring Entity
>>
>> The Apache Incubator
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>> Chief Architect
>> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
>> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
>> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

[Chris Douglas <cd...@apache.org>]

+1 (binding) -C

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
<ch...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> OK, discussion has died down on this thread. I was originally
> suggesting that the pTLP option may be best for this community,
> but after some discussions with the existing community of
> AsterixDB’ers proposing to bring the project here to the ASF,
> AsterixDB would like to move forward independent of whatever
> comes of the pTLP discussions.
>
> That said, I would like to propose Apache AsterixDB as an
> Incubator project. I am now calling a VOTE to accept AsterixDB
> into the Apache Incubator. This VOTE will run for at least 72 hours.
>
> [ ] +1 Accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator
> [ ] +0 Don’t care.
> [ ] -1 Don’t accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator because..
>
> Thanks for the feedback so far and looking forward to the VOTE!
>
> You can count my binding +1.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
> Chief Architect
> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <Ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>
> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM
> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
> Cc: Michael Carey <dt...@gmail.com>, Ian Maxon <im...@uci.edu>, Till
> Westmann <ti...@westmann.org>
> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Apache AsterixDB Incubator
>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>I am pleased to bring forth the Apache AsterixDB proposal to the
>>Apache Incubator as Champion, working in collaboration with the
>>team. Please find the wiki proposal here:
>>
>>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AsterixDBProposal
>>
>>
>>Full text of the proposal is below. Please discuss and enjoy. I’ll
>>leave the discussion open for a week, and then look to call a VOTE
>>hopefully end of next week if all is well.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>Chris Mattmann
>>
>>=============================================================
>>Apache AsterixDB Proposal
>>
>>Abstract
>>
>>Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
>>provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large
>>collections of semi-structured data.
>>
>>Proposal
>>
>>AsterixDB is a big data management system (BDMS) that makes it
>>well-suited to needs such as web data warehousing and social data
>>storage and analysis. Feature-wise, AsterixDB has:
>>
>>* A NoSQL style data model (ADM) based on extending JSON with object
>>  database concepts.
>>* An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) for querying
>>  semi-structured data.
>>* A runtime query execution engine, Hyracks, for partitioned-parallel
>>  execution of query plans.
>>* Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing for efficient
>>  ingestion of newly arriving data.
>>* Support for querying and indexing external data (e.g., in HDFS) as
>>  well as data stored within AsterixDB.
>>* A rich set of primitive data types, including support for spatial,
>>  temporal, and textual data.
>>* Indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted
>>  keyword index support.
>>* Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to
>>  those of a NoSQL store.
>>
>>
>>Background and Rationale
>>
>>In the world of relational databases, the need to tackle data volumes
>>that exceed the capabilities of a single server led to the
>>development of “shared-nothing” parallel database systems several
>>decades ago. These systems spread data over a cluster based on a
>>partitioning strategy, such as hash partitioning, and queries are
>>processed by employing partitioned-parallel divide-and-conquer
>>techniques. Since these systems are fronted by a high-level,
>>declarative language (SQL), their users are shielded from the
>>complexities of parallel programming. Parallel database systems have
>>been an extremely successful application of parallel computing, and
>>quite a number of commercial products exist today.
>>
>>In the distributed systems world, the Web brought a need to index and
>>query its huge content. SQL and relational databases were not the
>>answer, though shared-nothing clusters again emerged as the hardware
>>platform of choice. Google developed the Google File System (GFS) and
>>MapReduce programming model to allow programmers to store and process
>>Big Data by writing a few user-defined functions. The MapReduce
>>framework applies these functions in parallel to data instances in
>>distributed files (map) and to sorted groups of instances sharing a
>>common key (reduce) -- not unlike the partitioned parallelism in
>>parallel database systems. Apache's Hadoop MapReduce platform is the
>>most prominent implementation of this paradigm for the rest of the
>>Big Data community. On top of Hadoop and HDFS sit declarative
>>languages like Pig and Hive that each compile down to Hadoop
>>MapReduce jobs.
>>
>>The big Web companies were also challenged by extreme user bases
>>(100s of millions of users) and needed fast simple lookups and
>>updates to very large keyed data sets like user profiles. SQL
>>databases were deemed either too expensive or not scalable, so the
>>“NoSQL movement” was born. The ASF now has HBase and Cassandra, two
>>popular key-value stores, in this space. MongoDB and Couchbase are
>>other open source alternatives (document stores).
>>
>>It is evident from the rapidly growing popularity of "NoSQL" stores,
>>as well as the strong demand for Big Data analytics engines today,
>>that there is a strong (and growing!) need to store, process, *and*
>>query large volumes of semi-structured data in many application
>>areas. Until very recently, developers have had to ``choose'' between
>>using big data analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark,
>>which can do complex query processing and analysis over HDFS-resident
>>files, and flexible but low-function data stores like MongoDB or
>>Apache HBase. (The Apache Phoenix project,
>>http://phoenix.apache.org/, is a recent SQL-over-HBase effort that
>>aims to bridge between these choices.)
>>
>>AsterixDB is a highly scalable data management system that can store,
>>index, and manage semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but
>>it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
>>of SQL (and more). Unlike analytics engines like Hive or Spark, it
>>stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge of
>>data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always
>>scanning data set(s) to process queries. Somewhat surprisingly, there
>>is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise)
>>available to developers today -- AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
>>Since Apache is where the majority of the today's most important Big
>>Data technologies live, the ASF seems like the obvious home for a
>>system like AsterixDB.
>>
>>Current Status
>>
>>The current version of AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of
>>faculty, staff, and students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The
>>project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the
>>goal of which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel
>>database world, the then new Hadoop world, and the semi-structured
>>(e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation
>>BDMS. A first informal open source release was made four years later,
>>in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0.
>>
>>
>>Meritocracy
>>
>>The current developers are familiar with meritocratic open source
>>development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because we want
>>to encourage this style of development for the project.
>>
>>
>>Community
>>
>>While AsterixDB started as a university project it has developed into
>>a community. A number of the initial committers started contributing
>>in academia and continue to actively participate and contribute after
>>graduation. And we seek to further develop developer and user
>>communities. One way to broaden the community that is ongoing is
>>through academic collaborations (currently with IIT Mumbai in India
>>and TU Berlin in Germany). During incubation we will also explicitly
>>seek increased industrial participation.
>>
>>Some indicators of the effort's development community and history can
>>be
>>found at:
>>https://www.openhub.net/p/asterixdb/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>>,
>>https://www.openhub.net/p/hyracks/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>>
>>
>>Core Developers
>>
>>The core developers of the project are diverse, although initially UC
>>Irvine heavy (roughly 50) due to the project's origins at UCI. The
>>other 50 are from other academic institutions (UC Riverside and the
>>Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and companies (Couchbase, Facebook,
>>IBM, KACST Saudi Arabia, Oracle, Saudi Aramco, X15 Software).
>>
>>
>>Alignment
>>
>>Apache is, by far, the most natural home for taking the AsterixDB
>>project forward. A large fraction of today's top Big Data
>>technologies have their homes in Apache, including Hadoop, YARN, Pig,
>>Hive, Spark, Flink, HBase, Cassandra and others. AsterixDB fills a
>>significant gap -- the parallel data management system gap -- that
>>exists in the Big Data open source world. It is well-aligned with a
>>number of the Apache projects, e.g., it has strong support for
>>accessing and indexing external data in HDFS, and it uses YARN as an
>>answer to basic cluster resource management. AsterixDB also seeks to
>>achieve an Apache-style development model; it is seeking a broader
>>community of contributors and users in order to achieve its full
>>potential and value to the Big Data community.
>>
>>There are also a number of related Apache projects and dependencies
>>that will be mentioned below in the Relationships with Other Apache
>>products section.
>>
>>
>>Known Risks
>>
>>Orphaned products
>>
>>Given the current level of intellectual investment in AsterixDB, the
>>risk of the project being abandoned is very small. The UCI/UCR
>>faculty team leads are highly incentivized to continue development
>>since the database groups at UC Irvine and UC Riverside are both
>>reliant on AsterixDB as a platform for long-term graduate research
>>projects. UC San Diego is also beginning to contribute to the code
>>base, and a collaboration involving public health applications is
>>forming with UCLA. The work on AsterixDB is managed via a mix of
>>mailing list discussions supplemented by weekly project status
>>meetings which are summarized on the mailing list. Typical (local
>>plus Skype-in) attendance to the weekly status meetings runs at about
>>20 active contributors.
>>
>>
>>Inexperience with Open Source
>>
>>AsterixDB and Hyracks were completely developed in Open Source under
>>the ASL 2.0. The source code repositories, issue tracker, and mailing
>>lists are available on Google Code and discussions and decisions
>>happen on the mailing lists (which is necessary due to the geographic
>>distribution of the current developers).
>>
>>Also a few of the initial committers have contributed to Apache
>>projects. Vinayak Borkar is a committer on the Apache Helix and
>>Apache VXQuery projects. Till Westmann is the VP VXQuery at the ASF
>>and an IPMC member. Preston Carman and Steven Jacobs are committers
>>on the Apache VXQuery project.
>>
>>
>>Relationships with Other Apache Products
>>
>>Apache VXQuery is based on the Hyracks data-parallel runtime, which
>>is also included in the AsterixDB code base.
>>
>>AsterixDB is closely related to Apache Hadoop. Included in AsterixDB
>>is support for accessing external data in HDFS (and Hive formats),
>>and resource management and system administration features are in the
>>process of being migrated to YARN.
>>
>>AsterixDB's AQL query facilities offer comparable query power to
>>Apache's Pig and Hive systems for big data analytics. AsterixDB
>>differs in storing and indexing data and thus being able to quickly
>>answer small and medium queries without large HDFS data scans -
>>thereby targeting a different class of use cases.
>>
>>AsterixDB's data storage and indexing facilities are similar to those
>>of HBase, but AsterixDB differs in being a much more complete and
>>queryable BDMS (not just a key-value style store).
>>
>>AsterixDB's target use cases are not in-memory processing or
>>iterative algorithm support, making AsterixDB complementary to the
>>Apache Spark platform. (Spark interoperability is on our longer-term
>>to-do wishlist.)
>>
>>
>>Homogeneous Developers
>>
>>As mentioned before the current community is already organizationally
>>and geographically distributed - and we would like to increase the
>>heterogeneity.
>>
>>
>>Reliance on Salaried Developers
>>
>>Of the initial committers only 3 are full-time UCI staff. The other
>>committers are a mix of students, alumni who continue to contribute
>>to the effort, and individuals working with permission part-time (or
>>in spare time) on this project.
>>
>>
>>A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
>>
>>We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in
>>place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their
>>projects and provide exposure. While brand is important, our
>>fascination with it is not excessive. We believe that the ASF is the
>>right home for AsterixDB and that having AsterixDB inside of the ASF
>>will lead to a better long-term outcome for the Big Data community.
>>
>>
>>Documentation
>>
>>Documentation and publications related to AsterixDB can be found at
>>http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/.
>>
>>
>>Initial Source
>>
>>Current source resides in Google code:
>>https://code.google.com/p/asterixdb/ (query language and upper system
>>layers) and https://code.google.com/p/hyracks/ (dataflow runtime
>>system and storage management libraries).
>>
>>
>>External Dependencies
>>
>>AsterixDB depends on a number of Apache projects:
>>
>>- Ant
>>- Avro
>>- ApacheDB JDO
>>- Commons
>>- Derby
>>- Hadoop
>>- Hive
>>- HTTPComponents
>>- Jakarta ORO
>>- Maven
>>- Tomcat
>>- Thrift
>>- Velocity
>>- Wicket
>>- Xerces
>>
>>and other open source projects (organized by license):
>>
>>-- ASL 2.0:
>> - Jackson
>> - Google Guava
>> - Google Guice
>> - JSON-simple
>> - BoneCP
>> - Microsoft Azure SDK
>> - Netty
>> - Rome
>> - JetS3t
>> - Groovy
>> - Jettison
>> - Plexus
>> - Datanucleus (JDO)
>> - Jetty
>> - Twitter4J
>> - Snappy-java
>>
>>-- BSD:
>> - Antlr
>> - ObjectWeb ASM
>> - Protobuf
>> - JSCH
>> - JavaCC
>> - Paranamer
>> - JLine
>> - Stax
>> - StringTemplate
>> - xmlEnc
>>
>>-- MIT
>> - AppAssembler
>> - SimpleLog4J
>>
>>-- CDDL 1.0
>> - Java Activation Framework
>> - Java Transactions
>> - Java Servlet API
>> - Grizzly
>> - gmbal
>> - Glassfish
>>
>>-- CDDL 1.1
>> - Jersey
>> - JAXB Reference Implementation
>>
>>-- JSON License
>> - JSON
>>
>>-- EPL 1.0
>> - JUnit
>>
>>-- JDOM License
>> - JDOM
>>
>>-- Public Domain
>> - xz
>> - AOPAlliance
>>
>>As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the
>>external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution.
>>
>>
>>Required Resources
>>
>>Developer and user mailing lists
>>
>>private@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org (with moderated subscriptions)
>>commits@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>dev@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>users@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>
>>
>>A git repository
>>
>>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-asterixdb.git
>>
>>
>>A JIRA issue tracker
>>
>>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB
>>
>>
>>Initial Committers
>>
>>The following is a list of the planned initial Apache committers (the
>>active subset of the committers for the current repository at Google
>>code).
>>
>>Abdullah Alamoudi (bamousaa@gmail.com)
>>Cameron Samak (eufery@gmail.com)
>>Chen Li (chenli@gmail.com)
>>Ian Maxon (imaxon@uci.edu)
>>Ildar Absalyamov (ildar.absalyamov@gmail.com)
>>Jianfeng Jia (jianfeng.jia@gmail.com)
>>Karen Ouaknine (kereno@gmail.com)
>>Markus Dreseler (apache@dreseler.de)
>>Mike Carey (dtabass@apache.org)
>>Murtadha Hubail (hubailmor@gmail.com)
>>Pouria Pirzadeh (pouria.pirzadeh@gmail.com)
>>Preston Carman (prestonc@apache.org)
>>Raman Grover (RamanGrover29@gmail.com)
>>Sattam Alsubaiee (salsubaiee@gmail.com)
>>Steven Jacobs (sjaco002@apache.org)
>>Taewoo Kim (wangsaeu@gmail.com)
>>Till Westmann (tillw@apache.org)
>>Vinayak Borkar (vinayakb@apache.org)
>>Yingyi Bu (buyingyi@gmail.com)
>>Young-Seok Kim (kisskys@gmail.com)
>>Zach Heilbron (zheilbron@gmail.com)
>>
>>
>>Affiliations
>>
>>UC Irvine
>>- Mike Carey
>>- Chen Li
>>- Ian Maxon
>>- Yingyi Bu
>>- Raman Grover
>>- Pouria Pirzadeh
>>- Young-Seok Kim
>>- Cameron Samak
>>- Taewoo Kim
>>- Jianfeng Jia
>>- Murtadha Hubail
>>- Markus Dreseler
>>
>>UC Riverside
>>- Ildar Absalyamov
>>- Preston Carman
>>- Steven Jacobs
>>
>>Hebrew University
>>- Keren Ouaknine
>>
>>Oracle
>>- Till Westmann
>>
>>X15 Software
>>- Vinayak Borkar
>>- Zach Heilbron
>>
>>KACST Saudi Arabia
>>- Sattam Alsubaiee
>>
>>Saudi Aramco
>>- Abdullah Alamoudi
>>
>>Carey, Li, and Maxon are full-time UCI staff, with the remaining UCI
>>(UC Irvine) and UCR (UC Riverside) affiliates being students. The
>>non-UC committers are a mix of alumni who continue to contribute to
>>the effort and individuals working with permission part-time (or in
>>spare time) on this project.
>>
>>
>>Sponsors
>>
>>Champion
>>
>>Chris Mattmann (NASA/JPL)
>>
>>Nominated Mentors
>>
>>TBD
>>
>>Sponsoring Entity
>>
>>The Apache Incubator
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>>Chief Architect
>>Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
>>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>>Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
>>Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
>>WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
>>University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache AsterixDB in to the Incubator

[Henry Saputra <he...@gmail.com>]

+1  (binding)

- Henry

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
<ch...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> OK, discussion has died down on this thread. I was originally
> suggesting that the pTLP option may be best for this community,
> but after some discussions with the existing community of
> AsterixDB’ers proposing to bring the project here to the ASF,
> AsterixDB would like to move forward independent of whatever
> comes of the pTLP discussions.
>
> That said, I would like to propose Apache AsterixDB as an
> Incubator project. I am now calling a VOTE to accept AsterixDB
> into the Apache Incubator. This VOTE will run for at least 72 hours.
>
> [ ] +1 Accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator
> [ ] +0 Don’t care.
> [ ] -1 Don’t accept Apache AsterixDB into the Incubator because..
>
> Thanks for the feedback so far and looking forward to the VOTE!
>
> You can count my binding +1.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
> Chief Architect
> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <Ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>
> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM
> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
> Cc: Michael Carey <dt...@gmail.com>, Ian Maxon <im...@uci.edu>, Till
> Westmann <ti...@westmann.org>
> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Apache AsterixDB Incubator
>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>I am pleased to bring forth the Apache AsterixDB proposal to the
>>Apache Incubator as Champion, working in collaboration with the
>>team. Please find the wiki proposal here:
>>
>>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AsterixDBProposal
>>
>>
>>Full text of the proposal is below. Please discuss and enjoy. I’ll
>>leave the discussion open for a week, and then look to call a VOTE
>>hopefully end of next week if all is well.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>Chris Mattmann
>>
>>=============================================================
>>Apache AsterixDB Proposal
>>
>>Abstract
>>
>>Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
>>provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large
>>collections of semi-structured data.
>>
>>Proposal
>>
>>AsterixDB is a big data management system (BDMS) that makes it
>>well-suited to needs such as web data warehousing and social data
>>storage and analysis. Feature-wise, AsterixDB has:
>>
>>* A NoSQL style data model (ADM) based on extending JSON with object
>>  database concepts.
>>* An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) for querying
>>  semi-structured data.
>>* A runtime query execution engine, Hyracks, for partitioned-parallel
>>  execution of query plans.
>>* Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing for efficient
>>  ingestion of newly arriving data.
>>* Support for querying and indexing external data (e.g., in HDFS) as
>>  well as data stored within AsterixDB.
>>* A rich set of primitive data types, including support for spatial,
>>  temporal, and textual data.
>>* Indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted
>>  keyword index support.
>>* Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to
>>  those of a NoSQL store.
>>
>>
>>Background and Rationale
>>
>>In the world of relational databases, the need to tackle data volumes
>>that exceed the capabilities of a single server led to the
>>development of “shared-nothing” parallel database systems several
>>decades ago. These systems spread data over a cluster based on a
>>partitioning strategy, such as hash partitioning, and queries are
>>processed by employing partitioned-parallel divide-and-conquer
>>techniques. Since these systems are fronted by a high-level,
>>declarative language (SQL), their users are shielded from the
>>complexities of parallel programming. Parallel database systems have
>>been an extremely successful application of parallel computing, and
>>quite a number of commercial products exist today.
>>
>>In the distributed systems world, the Web brought a need to index and
>>query its huge content. SQL and relational databases were not the
>>answer, though shared-nothing clusters again emerged as the hardware
>>platform of choice. Google developed the Google File System (GFS) and
>>MapReduce programming model to allow programmers to store and process
>>Big Data by writing a few user-defined functions. The MapReduce
>>framework applies these functions in parallel to data instances in
>>distributed files (map) and to sorted groups of instances sharing a
>>common key (reduce) -- not unlike the partitioned parallelism in
>>parallel database systems. Apache's Hadoop MapReduce platform is the
>>most prominent implementation of this paradigm for the rest of the
>>Big Data community. On top of Hadoop and HDFS sit declarative
>>languages like Pig and Hive that each compile down to Hadoop
>>MapReduce jobs.
>>
>>The big Web companies were also challenged by extreme user bases
>>(100s of millions of users) and needed fast simple lookups and
>>updates to very large keyed data sets like user profiles. SQL
>>databases were deemed either too expensive or not scalable, so the
>>“NoSQL movement” was born. The ASF now has HBase and Cassandra, two
>>popular key-value stores, in this space. MongoDB and Couchbase are
>>other open source alternatives (document stores).
>>
>>It is evident from the rapidly growing popularity of "NoSQL" stores,
>>as well as the strong demand for Big Data analytics engines today,
>>that there is a strong (and growing!) need to store, process, *and*
>>query large volumes of semi-structured data in many application
>>areas. Until very recently, developers have had to ``choose'' between
>>using big data analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark,
>>which can do complex query processing and analysis over HDFS-resident
>>files, and flexible but low-function data stores like MongoDB or
>>Apache HBase. (The Apache Phoenix project,
>>http://phoenix.apache.org/, is a recent SQL-over-HBase effort that
>>aims to bridge between these choices.)
>>
>>AsterixDB is a highly scalable data management system that can store,
>>index, and manage semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but
>>it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
>>of SQL (and more). Unlike analytics engines like Hive or Spark, it
>>stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge of
>>data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always
>>scanning data set(s) to process queries. Somewhat surprisingly, there
>>is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise)
>>available to developers today -- AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
>>Since Apache is where the majority of the today's most important Big
>>Data technologies live, the ASF seems like the obvious home for a
>>system like AsterixDB.
>>
>>Current Status
>>
>>The current version of AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of
>>faculty, staff, and students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The
>>project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the
>>goal of which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel
>>database world, the then new Hadoop world, and the semi-structured
>>(e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation
>>BDMS. A first informal open source release was made four years later,
>>in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0.
>>
>>
>>Meritocracy
>>
>>The current developers are familiar with meritocratic open source
>>development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because we want
>>to encourage this style of development for the project.
>>
>>
>>Community
>>
>>While AsterixDB started as a university project it has developed into
>>a community. A number of the initial committers started contributing
>>in academia and continue to actively participate and contribute after
>>graduation. And we seek to further develop developer and user
>>communities. One way to broaden the community that is ongoing is
>>through academic collaborations (currently with IIT Mumbai in India
>>and TU Berlin in Germany). During incubation we will also explicitly
>>seek increased industrial participation.
>>
>>Some indicators of the effort's development community and history can
>>be
>>found at:
>>https://www.openhub.net/p/asterixdb/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>>,
>>https://www.openhub.net/p/hyracks/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
>>
>>
>>Core Developers
>>
>>The core developers of the project are diverse, although initially UC
>>Irvine heavy (roughly 50) due to the project's origins at UCI. The
>>other 50 are from other academic institutions (UC Riverside and the
>>Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and companies (Couchbase, Facebook,
>>IBM, KACST Saudi Arabia, Oracle, Saudi Aramco, X15 Software).
>>
>>
>>Alignment
>>
>>Apache is, by far, the most natural home for taking the AsterixDB
>>project forward. A large fraction of today's top Big Data
>>technologies have their homes in Apache, including Hadoop, YARN, Pig,
>>Hive, Spark, Flink, HBase, Cassandra and others. AsterixDB fills a
>>significant gap -- the parallel data management system gap -- that
>>exists in the Big Data open source world. It is well-aligned with a
>>number of the Apache projects, e.g., it has strong support for
>>accessing and indexing external data in HDFS, and it uses YARN as an
>>answer to basic cluster resource management. AsterixDB also seeks to
>>achieve an Apache-style development model; it is seeking a broader
>>community of contributors and users in order to achieve its full
>>potential and value to the Big Data community.
>>
>>There are also a number of related Apache projects and dependencies
>>that will be mentioned below in the Relationships with Other Apache
>>products section.
>>
>>
>>Known Risks
>>
>>Orphaned products
>>
>>Given the current level of intellectual investment in AsterixDB, the
>>risk of the project being abandoned is very small. The UCI/UCR
>>faculty team leads are highly incentivized to continue development
>>since the database groups at UC Irvine and UC Riverside are both
>>reliant on AsterixDB as a platform for long-term graduate research
>>projects. UC San Diego is also beginning to contribute to the code
>>base, and a collaboration involving public health applications is
>>forming with UCLA. The work on AsterixDB is managed via a mix of
>>mailing list discussions supplemented by weekly project status
>>meetings which are summarized on the mailing list. Typical (local
>>plus Skype-in) attendance to the weekly status meetings runs at about
>>20 active contributors.
>>
>>
>>Inexperience with Open Source
>>
>>AsterixDB and Hyracks were completely developed in Open Source under
>>the ASL 2.0. The source code repositories, issue tracker, and mailing
>>lists are available on Google Code and discussions and decisions
>>happen on the mailing lists (which is necessary due to the geographic
>>distribution of the current developers).
>>
>>Also a few of the initial committers have contributed to Apache
>>projects. Vinayak Borkar is a committer on the Apache Helix and
>>Apache VXQuery projects. Till Westmann is the VP VXQuery at the ASF
>>and an IPMC member. Preston Carman and Steven Jacobs are committers
>>on the Apache VXQuery project.
>>
>>
>>Relationships with Other Apache Products
>>
>>Apache VXQuery is based on the Hyracks data-parallel runtime, which
>>is also included in the AsterixDB code base.
>>
>>AsterixDB is closely related to Apache Hadoop. Included in AsterixDB
>>is support for accessing external data in HDFS (and Hive formats),
>>and resource management and system administration features are in the
>>process of being migrated to YARN.
>>
>>AsterixDB's AQL query facilities offer comparable query power to
>>Apache's Pig and Hive systems for big data analytics. AsterixDB
>>differs in storing and indexing data and thus being able to quickly
>>answer small and medium queries without large HDFS data scans -
>>thereby targeting a different class of use cases.
>>
>>AsterixDB's data storage and indexing facilities are similar to those
>>of HBase, but AsterixDB differs in being a much more complete and
>>queryable BDMS (not just a key-value style store).
>>
>>AsterixDB's target use cases are not in-memory processing or
>>iterative algorithm support, making AsterixDB complementary to the
>>Apache Spark platform. (Spark interoperability is on our longer-term
>>to-do wishlist.)
>>
>>
>>Homogeneous Developers
>>
>>As mentioned before the current community is already organizationally
>>and geographically distributed - and we would like to increase the
>>heterogeneity.
>>
>>
>>Reliance on Salaried Developers
>>
>>Of the initial committers only 3 are full-time UCI staff. The other
>>committers are a mix of students, alumni who continue to contribute
>>to the effort, and individuals working with permission part-time (or
>>in spare time) on this project.
>>
>>
>>A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
>>
>>We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in
>>place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their
>>projects and provide exposure. While brand is important, our
>>fascination with it is not excessive. We believe that the ASF is the
>>right home for AsterixDB and that having AsterixDB inside of the ASF
>>will lead to a better long-term outcome for the Big Data community.
>>
>>
>>Documentation
>>
>>Documentation and publications related to AsterixDB can be found at
>>http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/.
>>
>>
>>Initial Source
>>
>>Current source resides in Google code:
>>https://code.google.com/p/asterixdb/ (query language and upper system
>>layers) and https://code.google.com/p/hyracks/ (dataflow runtime
>>system and storage management libraries).
>>
>>
>>External Dependencies
>>
>>AsterixDB depends on a number of Apache projects:
>>
>>- Ant
>>- Avro
>>- ApacheDB JDO
>>- Commons
>>- Derby
>>- Hadoop
>>- Hive
>>- HTTPComponents
>>- Jakarta ORO
>>- Maven
>>- Tomcat
>>- Thrift
>>- Velocity
>>- Wicket
>>- Xerces
>>
>>and other open source projects (organized by license):
>>
>>-- ASL 2.0:
>> - Jackson
>> - Google Guava
>> - Google Guice
>> - JSON-simple
>> - BoneCP
>> - Microsoft Azure SDK
>> - Netty
>> - Rome
>> - JetS3t
>> - Groovy
>> - Jettison
>> - Plexus
>> - Datanucleus (JDO)
>> - Jetty
>> - Twitter4J
>> - Snappy-java
>>
>>-- BSD:
>> - Antlr
>> - ObjectWeb ASM
>> - Protobuf
>> - JSCH
>> - JavaCC
>> - Paranamer
>> - JLine
>> - Stax
>> - StringTemplate
>> - xmlEnc
>>
>>-- MIT
>> - AppAssembler
>> - SimpleLog4J
>>
>>-- CDDL 1.0
>> - Java Activation Framework
>> - Java Transactions
>> - Java Servlet API
>> - Grizzly
>> - gmbal
>> - Glassfish
>>
>>-- CDDL 1.1
>> - Jersey
>> - JAXB Reference Implementation
>>
>>-- JSON License
>> - JSON
>>
>>-- EPL 1.0
>> - JUnit
>>
>>-- JDOM License
>> - JDOM
>>
>>-- Public Domain
>> - xz
>> - AOPAlliance
>>
>>As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the
>>external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution.
>>
>>
>>Required Resources
>>
>>Developer and user mailing lists
>>
>>private@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org (with moderated subscriptions)
>>commits@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>dev@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>users@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org
>>
>>
>>A git repository
>>
>>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-asterixdb.git
>>
>>
>>A JIRA issue tracker
>>
>>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB
>>
>>
>>Initial Committers
>>
>>The following is a list of the planned initial Apache committers (the
>>active subset of the committers for the current repository at Google
>>code).
>>
>>Abdullah Alamoudi (bamousaa@gmail.com)
>>Cameron Samak (eufery@gmail.com)
>>Chen Li (chenli@gmail.com)
>>Ian Maxon (imaxon@uci.edu)
>>Ildar Absalyamov (ildar.absalyamov@gmail.com)
>>Jianfeng Jia (jianfeng.jia@gmail.com)
>>Karen Ouaknine (kereno@gmail.com)
>>Markus Dreseler (apache@dreseler.de)
>>Mike Carey (dtabass@apache.org)
>>Murtadha Hubail (hubailmor@gmail.com)
>>Pouria Pirzadeh (pouria.pirzadeh@gmail.com)
>>Preston Carman (prestonc@apache.org)
>>Raman Grover (RamanGrover29@gmail.com)
>>Sattam Alsubaiee (salsubaiee@gmail.com)
>>Steven Jacobs (sjaco002@apache.org)
>>Taewoo Kim (wangsaeu@gmail.com)
>>Till Westmann (tillw@apache.org)
>>Vinayak Borkar (vinayakb@apache.org)
>>Yingyi Bu (buyingyi@gmail.com)
>>Young-Seok Kim (kisskys@gmail.com)
>>Zach Heilbron (zheilbron@gmail.com)
>>
>>
>>Affiliations
>>
>>UC Irvine
>>- Mike Carey
>>- Chen Li
>>- Ian Maxon
>>- Yingyi Bu
>>- Raman Grover
>>- Pouria Pirzadeh
>>- Young-Seok Kim
>>- Cameron Samak
>>- Taewoo Kim
>>- Jianfeng Jia
>>- Murtadha Hubail
>>- Markus Dreseler
>>
>>UC Riverside
>>- Ildar Absalyamov
>>- Preston Carman
>>- Steven Jacobs
>>
>>Hebrew University
>>- Keren Ouaknine
>>
>>Oracle
>>- Till Westmann
>>
>>X15 Software
>>- Vinayak Borkar
>>- Zach Heilbron
>>
>>KACST Saudi Arabia
>>- Sattam Alsubaiee
>>
>>Saudi Aramco
>>- Abdullah Alamoudi
>>
>>Carey, Li, and Maxon are full-time UCI staff, with the remaining UCI
>>(UC Irvine) and UCR (UC Riverside) affiliates being students. The
>>non-UC committers are a mix of alumni who continue to contribute to
>>the effort and individuals working with permission part-time (or in
>>spare time) on this project.
>>
>>
>>Sponsors
>>
>>Champion
>>
>>Chris Mattmann (NASA/JPL)
>>
>>Nominated Mentors
>>
>>TBD
>>
>>Sponsoring Entity
>>
>>The Apache Incubator
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>>Chief Architect
>>Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
>>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>>Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
>>Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
>>WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
>>University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>>
>>
>>
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