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Till Westmann00f9bf22016-03-14 13:59:27 -0700[diff] [blame]108<h2>About Apache AsterixDB</h2>
Till Westmanndadc9b72016-04-26 17:24:34 -0700[diff] [blame]109<p>Apache AsterixDB™ is a highly scalable data management system that can store, index, and manage semi-structured
110data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness of SQL (and
111more).
Till Westmann5291c492016-04-04 09:35:50 -0700[diff] [blame]112Unlike analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark, it stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its
113knowledge of data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always scanning data set(s) to process queries.
114Somewhat surprisingly, there is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise) available to
115developers today – AsterixDB aims to fill this need.</p>
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117<h3 id="core-features">Core features</h3>
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120 <li>A NoSQL style data model (ADM) based on extending JSON with object
121database concepts.</li>
122 <li>An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) for querying
123semi-structured data.</li>
Till Westmannc6e439f2016-07-07 14:45:57 -0700[diff] [blame]124 <li>A runtime query execution engine, Apache Hyracks, for partitioned-parallel
Ian Maxon3dffc852015-07-13 20:17:09 -0700[diff] [blame]125execution of query plans.</li>
126 <li>Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing for efficient
127ingestion of newly arriving data.</li>
128 <li>Support for querying and indexing external data (e.g., in HDFS) as
129well as data stored within AsterixDB.</li>
130 <li>A rich set of primitive data types, including support for spatial,
131temporal, and textual data.</li>
132 <li>Indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted
133keyword index support.</li>
134 <li>Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to
135those of a NoSQL store.</li>
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138<h3 id="history">History</h3>
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Till Westmann5291c492016-04-04 09:35:50 -0700[diff] [blame]140<p>Prior to being developed at the Apache Software Foundation AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of faculty, staff, and
141students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the goal of
142which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel database world, the then new Apache Hadoop world, and the
143semi-structured (e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation BDMS. A first informal open source
144release was made four years later, in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0. AsterixDB was accepted into
Till Westmanndadc9b72016-04-26 17:24:34 -0700[diff] [blame]145the Apache Incubator in Febuary of 2015 and was established as a TLP in April of 2016.</p>
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Till Westmannc6e439f2016-07-07 14:45:57 -0700[diff] [blame]147<h3 id="more-information">More information</h3>
148
149<p>More information about AsterixDB (and its underlying frameworks Hyracks and Algebricks) can be found on the site of the
150<a href="http://asterix.ics.uci.edu/">ASTERIX project at UC Irvine</a> - especially in the
151<a href="http://asterix.ics.uci.edu/publications.html">Publications section</a>.</p>
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