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Till Westmann00f9bf22016-03-14 13:59:27 -0700[diff] [blame]98<h2>About Apache AsterixDB</h2>
Till Westmann5291c492016-04-04 09:35:50 -0700[diff] [blame^]99<p>Apache AsterixDB™ (incubating) is a highly scalable data management system that can store, index, and manage
Till Westmann00f9bf22016-03-14 13:59:27 -0700[diff] [blame]100semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
101of SQL (and more).
Till Westmann5291c492016-04-04 09:35:50 -0700[diff] [blame^]102Unlike analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark, it stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its
103knowledge of data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always scanning data set(s) to process queries.
104Somewhat surprisingly, there is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise) available to
105developers today – AsterixDB aims to fill this need.</p>
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107<h3 id="core-features">Core features</h3>
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110 <li>A NoSQL style data model (ADM) based on extending JSON with object
111database concepts.</li>
112 <li>An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) for querying
113semi-structured data.</li>
114 <li>A runtime query execution engine, Hyracks, for partitioned-parallel
115execution of query plans.</li>
116 <li>Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing for efficient
117ingestion of newly arriving data.</li>
118 <li>Support for querying and indexing external data (e.g., in HDFS) as
119well as data stored within AsterixDB.</li>
120 <li>A rich set of primitive data types, including support for spatial,
121temporal, and textual data.</li>
122 <li>Indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted
123keyword index support.</li>
124 <li>Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to
125those of a NoSQL store.</li>
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128<h3 id="history">History</h3>
Till Westmann5291c492016-04-04 09:35:50 -0700[diff] [blame^]129<p>Prior to being developed at the Apache Software Foundation AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of faculty, staff, and
130students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the goal of
131which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel database world, the then new Apache Hadoop world, and the
132semi-structured (e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation BDMS. A first informal open source
133release was made four years later, in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0. AsterixDB was accepted into
134the Apache Incubator and began Incubation as of Febuary of 2015.</p>
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147 <p>Apache AsterixDB is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored
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