WIth 10 binding +1 votes and 7 non-binding +1 votes, and with no votes against, the vote passes.
Thanks to all who voted. Let us start in on the work getting Trafodiion set up as an incubator podling. Yours, St.Ack P.S. Here is a link to the vote thread: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201505.mbox/%3CCADcMMgGO-WXFc75U1E%2BcvpF%3D%3Dv%2BPEaTfoOycy%3D-tDPLLvG3irA%40mail.gmail.com%3E On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > Following the discussion earlier in the thread [1], I would like to call > a VOTE to accept Trafodion as a new Apache Incubator project. > > The proposal is available on the wiki at [2] and is also attached to this > mail. > > The VOTE is open for at least the next 72 hours: > > [ ] +1 accept Trafodion into the Apache Incubator > [ ] ±0 Abstain > [ ] -1 because... > > I am +1 (binding) > > Thank you, > St.Ack > > 1. > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201505.mbox/%3CCADcMMgG4NHtmFZ519iqgZLA8Lj-E7VmaQ%3Dr8C011LuS5pR0Vkw%40mail.gmail.com%3E > 2. https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TrafodionProposal > <https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TrafodionProposal#preview> > > > > Trafodion Apache Incubator Proposal > > Abstract > > Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or > operational workloads on Hadoop. > > Proposal > > Apache Trafodion builds on the scalability, elasticity, and flexibility of > Hadoop. Trafodion extends Hadoop to provide guaranteed transactional > integrity, enabling new kinds of big data applications to run on Hadoop. Key > features of Apache Trafodion include: > > * Full-functioned ANSI SQL language support > * JDBC/ODBC connectivity for Linux/Windows clients > * Distributed ACID transaction protection across multiple statements, > tables and rows > * Performance improvements for OLTP workloads with compile-time and > run-time optimizations > * Support for large data sets using a parallel-aware query optimizer > * ANSI SQL security and data integrity constraints including referential > integrity > > Hewlett-Packard Company submits this proposal to donate its Apache > License, Version 2.0 open source project known as Trafodion, its source > code, documentation, and web site content to the Apache Software Foundation > in order to build an open source community > > Background > > Trafodion is an open source project sponsored by HP, incubated at HP Labs > and HP-IT, to develop an enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution targeting > big data transactional or operational workloads. HP publically announced > the open source project and uploaded the source code to GitHub in June 2014. > > The SQL compiler, optimizer and executor components of Trafodion have a > rich heritage. Under development since 1993, they were released as > commercial closed source software in various flavors such as HP NonStop > SQL/MX and HP Neoview. NonStop SQL/MX was designed for online transaction > processing on HP’s NonStop (formerly Tandem) fault-tolerant servers and is > known for its high availability, scalability, and performance. Hundreds of > companies and thousands of servers are running mission-critical > applications today on NonStop SQL/MX. In addition, much of these components > today are running internal to HP as the core of its Enterprise Data > Warehouse (EDW), managing over a PB of data. > > Starting in 2013, the software was modified to run on HBase and a new > distributed transaction manager was written to run as an HBase co-processor. > > Unlike most NOSQL and other SQL-on-Hadoop open source projects, Trafodion > provides comprehensive ANSI SQL language support including full-functioned > data definition (DDL), data manipulation (DML), transaction control (TCL) > and database utility support. > > Trafodion provides comprehensive and standard SQL data manipulation > support including SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and UPSERT/MERGE syntax > with language options including join variants, unions, where predicates, > aggregations (group by and having), sort ordering, sampling, correlated and > nested sub-queries, cursors, and many SQL functions. > > Utilities are provided for updating table statistics used by the optimizer > for costing (i.e. selectivity/cardinality estimates) plan alternatives, for > displaying the chosen SQL execution plan, plan shaping, backup and > restoring the database, data loading and unloading, and a command line > utility for interfacing with the database engine. > > Explicit control statements are provided to allow applications to define > transaction boundaries and to abort transactions when warranted, including > BEGIN WORK, COMMIT WORK, ROLLBACK WORK and SET TRANSACTION. > > Trafodion supports ANSI’s grant/revoke semantics to define user and role > privileges in terms of managing and accessing the database objects. > > Rationale > > The name “Trafodion” (the Welsh word for transactions, pronounced > “Tra-vod-eee-on”) was chosen specifically to emphasize the differentiation > that Trafodion provides in closing a critical gap in the Hadoop ecosystem. > Trafodion builds on the scalability, elasticity, and flexibility of Hadoop. > Trafodion extends Hadoop to provide guaranteed transactional integrity, > enabling new kinds of big data applications to run on Hadoop. > > Current Status > > HP released the Trafodion code under the Apache License, Version 2, in > June of 2014. Since that time, we have had one major release in January > 2015 and one minor release in April 2015. The focus of these releases has > been in getting our base functionality, including security, working on top > of Apache HBase, as well as improving performance, availability and > scalability, and integrating better with HBase. > > Meritocracy > > We want to build a diverse developer community, based on the Apache Way, > around Trafodion. To help developers become contributors, we have > documentation on the wiki about the architecture, the source tree > structure, and an example enhancement. We plan to publish our project > backlog to the community, specifically highlighting areas where developers > new to Trafodion may best start contributing, such as extending the > database functionality with User Defined Routines (UDRs) and integrating > with other Apache projects in the Hadoop ecosystem. > > Community > > We have already begun building a community but at this time the community > consists only of Trafodion developers – all HP employees – and prospective > users. We have participated in and hosted HBase Meetups and intend to ramp > up our community building efforts. > > The Trafodion project has seen interest in China, where HP has conducted > proof-of-concepts with multiple companies and expects to see some of its > first commercial deployments. To help recruit contributors and users in > China, members of the team are translating Trafodion wiki content into > Mandarin. > > Core Developers > > The core developers are very experienced in database and transaction > monitor technology, with many having spent more than 20 years working in > this space. > > Alignment > > Apache Trafodion relies on Apache HBase as its storage engine. The > development team has collaborated with and gained valuable advice from > working with the Apache HBase core developers. Apache Trafodion has > federation capabilities as well, and can query Trafodion tables stored in > HBase, native HBase tables, and Apache Hive tables. > > Known Risks > > Orphaned Products > > HP Labs and HP-IT have been incubating Trafodion development for almost > two years. This is part of HP’s strategy to leverage its investment in > database software and bring software to market as open source and is > similar to HP’s efforts with OpenStack. Trafodion builds on HP’s equity > investment in the Hadoop ecosystem and its efforts to monetize Hadoop > through hardware, software, and services. HP wants Trafodion to be > successful, as HP will offer a commercially supported distribution of > Trafodion. > > Inexperience with Open Source > > We have been working with open source software in building closed source > software for well over two decades. To help transition to doing open source > development, the development team received guidance and best practices from > HP developers working on OpenStack open source projects, many of whom have > experience working on Apache and other open source projects as well. Since > releasing Trafodion as an open source project in June of 2014, the > committers and contributors have moved forward using open source > development processes and tools for bug tracking and design blueprints and > Jenkins for continuous integration. As part of the incubation process, we > recognize we may need to change some of our development processes/tools and > conduct our discussions using Apache email dlists. > > Homogenous Developers > > Since the initial development of Trafodion has been supported by HP, all > of the current developers are HP employees. Through the support of the > Apache incubation project, we aim to expand the list of developers and gain > contributors from related SQL-on-Hadoop projects and the Apache HBase > project. Trafodion developers are experienced with distributed development > processes, being primarily based in Palo Alto, CA; Austin, TX; and > Shanghai, China. Trafodion is written in C++ and Java. > > Reliance on Salaried Developers > > Currently all of the developers working on the project are paid by their > employer to work on the project. These developers will work on the open > source project as well as work on the commercially supported distribution > of Trafodion that HP will offer. > > Relationship with Other Apache Products > > Trafodion is built upon Apache HBase and extends it to support ACID > transactions with HBase co-processors for distributed transaction > management and recovery. Trafodion envisions future collaborations with the > Apache HBase project on performance optimizations, such as in the areas of > mixed workload support, High Availability, etc. It also provides > transactional support and querying from native HBase tables as well. > > Trafodion uses Apache Zookeeper to coordinate and manage the distribution > of connection services across the cluster for load-balancing and high > availability reconnection purposes in the event a Trafodion process should > fail. > > Trafodion also envisions working with the Apache Ambari project on > enabling better Trafodion manageability. While Ambari focuses on system and > component level performance metrics, Trafodion manageability will focus in > a complimentary way on database workload monitoring and performance > analytics with capabilities more geared towards database administrators. > > There are alternative open source projects that are providing > SQL-on-Hadoop capabilities, such as Apache Hive, Apache Drill, and Apache > Phoenix. These are more focused on reporting and analytics across data > structures supported on HDFS. In comparison to all of these technologies > Trafodion provides a very complete implementation of ANSI SQL, one of the > most sophisticated optimizers for such workloads, a completely parallel > data flow architecture that does not materialize intermediate results > unless necessary, full ACID transactional support, ANSI GRANT/REVOKE > security, and other capabilities that would take decades to build in these > products. On the other hand currently Trafodion is just focused on HBase > and querying Hive, whereas Hive and Drill provide access to other data > formats in HDFS. > > An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand > > We understand the reputation and value of the Apache brand, and no doubt > believe that it will help us attract contributors and users. Our primary > goal is to follow a proven, open source development and community building > model that will make Trafodion successful and enable better collaboration > with other Apache projects in the Hadoop ecosystem. We also understand the > rules and guidelines about the use of the Apache brand and intend to follow > them. > > Documentation > > Documentation and technical details on Trafodion can be found at: > http://www.trafodion.org/ > > Initial Source > > The source is available today in a public github repository: > https://github.com/trafodion/trafodion. > > Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan > > The source code has already been released under the Apache License, > Version 2. The manuals have been released in Adobe PDF format. As part of > the submission process, the source for the manuals will be converted from a > proprietary DocBook XML format to AsciiDoc. > > External Dependencies > > Two dependencies do not have Apache compatible licenses and will be > addressed as we enter incubation. One dependency is log4cpp, which is > licensed under the LGPL. A compatible alternative might be Apache incubator > project log4cxx. The other dependency is unixodbc, which is used as the > ODBC driver manager. We will look into how Apache Hive manages being able > to use this incompatible software and do similar. All other dependencies > have Apache compatible licenses, including Apache 2.0, MIT/X11, MIT, and > BSD. > > Cryptography > > Trafodion does not contain any cryptographic code. It does call > cryptographic libraries: OpenSSL for C++ code and Java Cryptography > Extension (JCE) for Java code. > > Required Resources > > Mailing Lists > > priv...@trafodion.incubator.apache.org > d...@trafodion.incubator.apache.org comm...@trafodion.incubator.apache.org > > Git Repository > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/afs/incubator-trafodion.git > > Issue Tracking > > JIRA: JIRA Trafodion (Trafodion) > > > Initial Committers and Affiliation > > Dave Birdsall, Hewlett-Packard Company, Dave.Birdsall<AT>hp<DOT>com > Matt Brown, Hewlett-Packard Company, mattbrown<AT>hp<DOT>com > Tharak Capirala, Hewlett-Packard Company, Tharak.Capirala<AT>hp<DOT>com > Alice Chen, Hewlett-Packard Company, Alice.Chen<AT>hp<DOT>com > John DeRoo, Hewlett-Packard Company, John.Deroo<AT>hp<DOT>com > Roberta Marton, Hewlett-Packard Company, Roberta.Marton<AT>hp<DOT>com > Amanda Moran, Hewlett-Packard Company, Amanda.Kay.Moran<AT>hp<DOT>com > Suresh Subbiah, Hewlett-Packard Company, Suresh.Subbiah<AT>hp<DOT>com > Sandyha Sundaresan, Hewlett-Packard Company, > Sandhya.Sundaresan<AT>hp<DOT>com > > Sponsors > > Champion > > Michael Stack, Stack<AT>apache<DOT>org > > Nominated Mentors > > Andrew Purtell apurtell<AT>apache<DOT>org > Devaraj Das, ddas<AT>apache<DOT>or > Enis Söztutar, Enis<AT>apache<DOT>org > Lars Hofhansl, larsh<AT>apache<DOT>org > Michael Stack, Stack<AT>apache<DOT>org > Roman Shaposhnik, rshaposhnik<AT>pivotal<DOT>io > > Sponsoring Entity > > Apache Incubator PMC > >
