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Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel
Processing (MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of Pivotal
Greenplum Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14 kernel,
whereas Greenplum is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade brings enhanced
enterprise capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited for data
warehousing, large-scale analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Publish the first Apache release following ASF release processes.
2. Grow the contributor and community to ensure long-term sustainability.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
We're working on the first ever Apache release. Hope to get enough
reviews and binding votes when the first Release vote email is sent to the
Incubator mailing list.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Mailing list Activity: 221 new emails on the Dev mailing list since the
last report (98 emails in May, 60 emails in June and 63 emails in July),
covering technical and Apache-related discussions.
- Slack Activity: 15 new threads in `general` channel, 5 new members
since last report.
- GitHub Discussions: 16 new threads since last report (8 new in May, 5
new in June, 3 new in July).
- New Committers:
- May 21, 2025 - Wenchao Zhang (zhangwenchao-123)
- July 9, 2025 - Xun Gong (gongxun0928)
- Events:
- Community Over Code Asia 2025: six presentations on Cloudberry at
this conference, covering AI, Data Warehouse, OLAP and Incubator tracks.
There was one Cloudberry booth.
- HOW2025: PostgreSQL & IvorySQL Eco Conference in Jinan, China: PPMC
members Dianjin Wang and Max Yang attended this conference and introduced
Apache Cloudberry to the audience.
- 10-minute T3D session on Apache Cloudberry from PPMC Member Tushar
Pednekar with the host Joshua Drake: https://youtu.be/0mPCoEXG0XU
- PPMC member Tushar Pednekar had a presentation on Cloudberry + Flink
at Flink Forward Asia, Singapore 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9d572vOvNY
- Presentation recording available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMYqOoE4p5A, by contributor @Leonid
Borchuk
and PPMC Member @Kirill Reshke at the sql-ninja conference.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Compliance with ASF policy:
- Renamed `greenplum_path` to `cloudberry-env.sh` for better compliance
with ASF rules.
- Updated Apache RAT license metadata for release.
- Changed PAX's cpp-stub from submodule to subdir to avoid introducing
binary files.
- Changed Python modules for gpMgmt from bundling their source tarballs
to downloading them during the build process via `pip3 install`.
- Working on the first Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) 2.0.0 release:
- Already had RC1 & RC2 rounds and fixed some license issues, will have
an RC3 round for the dev vote and Apache Incubator vote.
- PostgreSQL Kernel upgrade: the community developer has started the
kernel upgrade work from PG 14.4 to PG 16.6.
- 130 new commits to main branch since the last report, focusing on
performance improvements, bug fixes and new features.
- Ecosystem:
- Apache SeaTunnel added official connector support for Apache
Cloudberry in its latest 2.3.11 release (See https://s.apache.org/baj30).
- Flink JDBC Connector v3.3.0+ now supports Cloudberry via PR
https://s.apache.org/jt29r
- Our GitHub main repo has reached 1k+ GitHub stars!
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- May 21, 2025 - Wenchao Zhang (zhangwenchao-123)
- July 9, 2025 - Xun Gong (gongxun0928)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, we can get suggestions and support on licensing and release matters.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [X] (cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: PPMC is trying they best to cut the first release by
following ASF release policy.
- [X] (cloudberry) Kent Yao
Comments: The community is active
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel
Processing
(MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of Pivotal Greenplum
Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14 kernel, whereas
Greenplum
is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade brings enhanced enterprise
capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited for data warehousing,
large-scale
analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Complete the source code cleanup to ensure ASF compliance.
2. Publish the first Apache release following ASF release processes.
3. Grow the contributor and community to ensure long-term sustainability.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Mailing list Activity: 59 messages and 92 messages on the Dev mailing
list in March and April 2025, covering technical and Apache-related
discussions.
- Slack Activity: 16 new threads in `general` channel, 27 new members since
last report.
- GitHub Discussions: 4 new threads in March and 7 new threads in April.
- New Committer: welcomed our first committer since joining the incubator.
- Mar 19, 2025 - Xiong Tong
- Events:
- Join OSPP 2025 to attract university students to join the open-source
development
- A Cloudberry Meetup hosted by HashData in Hangzhou attracted 30~
attendees.
- The contributor @Leonid Borchuk and PPMC Member @Kirill Reshke
presented their talks on Cloudberry at the sql-ninja conference in Moscow
on 03/22, 2025.
- PPMC member Shine Zhang presented "From Greenplum to Apache Cloudberry"
at Postgres Conference 2025, Orlando / United States, March 20, 2025
- 6+ Cloudberry proposals are submitted to CommunityOverCode NA/Asia 2025
(still in review and waiting for the final approval).
- Create website pages to guide on how to invite the new committer.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Create the Wiki space in GitHub to organize the collective knowledge from
community practices, including the release process.
- Security:
- Integrated two code analysis tools to enhance our code quality and
identify potential issues in the development process: Coverity Scan and
SonarQube Scan.
- Fix the PostgreSQL security issue CVE-2025-1094.
- CICD:
- Working on adding the Ubuntu build and test environment support to
Cloudberry
- Codebase Updates:
- Evolve the Cloudberry code following the Roadmap: Contributed back the
row-column hybrid storage engine -PAX to the Cloudberry codebase;
- Completed the first stage of cherry-picking commits from the
open-source Greenplum project to Cloudberry (80%+ progress of plan).
- Work for the first Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) 2.0.0 release
- Pull Request management through the GitHub project:
https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/490
- License-related updates:
- Update the NOTICE and LICENSE files.
- List the third-party licenses under the `licenses` directory.
- Replace the Pylint with a license-compatible one - ruff.
- Update the license headers with the Apache license header for the
newly created files.
- Add RAT license audit config and compliance metadata.
- Brand updates: rebrand old names to the latest Apache Cloudberry brand
both in the main codebase and the site source.
- Cleanup the old unused files from the source code for a clearer
codebase and ASF compliance (including concourse/*, hd-ci/*, deploy/*, and
so on).
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Mar 19, 2025 - Xiong Tong (committer)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, we can get quick responses on the license-related issues, and glad to
see the mentors' guidance to the PPMC on the new committer's workflow.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [X] (cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Kent Yao
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel
Processing
(MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of Pivotal Greenplum
Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14 kernel, whereas
Greenplum
is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade brings enhanced enterprise
capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited for data warehousing,
large-scale
analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Complete the source code cleanup to ensure ASF compliance.
2. Publish the first Apache release following ASF release processes.
3. Grow the contributor and community to ensure long-term sustainability.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Mailing list Activity: 59 messages and 92 messages on the Dev mailing
list in March and April 2025, covering technical and Apache-related
discussions.
- Slack Activity: 16 new threads in `general` channel, 27 new members since
last report.
- GitHub Discussions: 4 new threads in March and 7 new threads in April.
- New Committer: welcomed our first committer since joining the incubator.
- Mar 19, 2025 - Xiong Tong
- Events:
- Join OSPP 2025 to attract university students to join the open-source
development
- A Cloudberry Meetup hosted by HashData in Hangzhou attracted 30~
attendees.
- The contributor @Leonid Borchuk and PPMC Member @Kirill Reshke
presented their talks on Cloudberry at the sql-ninja conference in Moscow
on 03/22, 2025.
- PPMC member Shine Zhang presented "From Greenplum to Apache Cloudberry"
at Postgres Conference 2025, Orlando / United States, March 20, 2025
- 6+ Cloudberry proposals are submitted to CommunityOverCode NA/Asia 2025
(still in review and waiting for the final approval).
- Create website pages to guide on how to invite the new committer.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Create the Wiki space in GitHub to organize the collective knowledge from
community practices, including the release process.
- Security:
- Integrated two code analysis tools to enhance our code quality and
identify potential issues in the development process: Coverity Scan and
SonarQube Scan.
- Fix the PostgreSQL security issue CVE-2025-1094.
- CICD:
- Working on adding the Ubuntu build and test environment support to
Cloudberry
- Codebase Updates:
- Evolve the Cloudberry code following the Roadmap: Contributed back the
row-column hybrid storage engine -PAX to the Cloudberry codebase;
- Completed the first stage of cherry-picking commits from the
open-source Greenplum project to Cloudberry (80%+ progress of plan).
- Work for the first Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) 2.0.0 release
- Pull Request management through the GitHub project:
https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/490
- License-related updates:
- Update the NOTICE and LICENSE files.
- List the third-party licenses under the `licenses` directory.
- Replace the Pylint with a license-compatible one - ruff.
- Update the license headers with the Apache license header for the
newly created files.
- Add RAT license audit config and compliance metadata.
- Brand updates: rebrand old names to the latest Apache Cloudberry brand
both in the main codebase and the site source.
- Cleanup the old unused files from the source code for a clearer
codebase and ASF compliance (including concourse/*, hd-ci/*, deploy/*, and
so on).
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Mar 19, 2025 - Xiong Tong (committer)
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, we can get quick responses on the license-related issues, and glad to
see the mentors' guidance to the PPMC on the new committer's workflow.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [X] (cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Kent Yao
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel
Processing (MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of
Pivotal Greenplum Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14
kernel, whereas Greenplum is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade
brings enhanced enterprise capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited
for data warehousing, large-scale analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Complete the source code cleanup to ensure ASF compliance.
2. Publish the first Apache release following ASF release processes.
3. Expand the contributor base and community engagement to ensure
long-term sustainability.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Mailing List Activity: 63 messages on the Dev mailing list in Feb 2025,
covering technical discussions and roadmap planning.
- Slack Activity: 8 new threads on the `#general` channel, though no new
users joined.
- GitHub Discussions: 27 new discussions since Cloudberry entered
incubation in October 2024, reflecting engagement on technical topics and
project direction.
- Outreach & Advocacy:
- Promoted Cloudberry ecosystem updates (e.g., DBeaver and WAL-G support).
- Encouraged community members to submit conference sessions.
- Meetup: A Cloudberry Meetup hosted by HashData in Shanghai attracted
40+ attendees.
- Recent Webinar: Apache Cloudberry™ (Incubating): The Latest Database
for SQL at Scale
- Event: Postgres World Webinar Series 2024
- Date: December 10, 2024
- Webinar Link: https://s.apache.org/slop6
- Upcoming Conference Talk: From Greenplum to Apache Cloudberry
- Event: PostgresConf Global 2025
- Date: March 20, 2025, 10:30 EDT
- Conference Link: https://s.apache.org/6ufdx
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Codebase Updates:
- Integrated key contributions from the open-source Greenplum project
while aligning them with Cloudberry’s roadmap.
- Ongoing source code cleanup to ensure ASF compliance and prepare for
the first official release.
- Continuous Integration & Testing:
- CI is now in place for the Rocky Linux 9 platform.
- Testing has been extensively expanded since incubation, covering all
PRs and main branch submissions.
- GitHub Actions Workflows leverage automated builds for required
resources (e.g., Docker containers).
- The developer community has played a key role in shaping the CI and
development processes, contributing feedback, enhancements, and best
practices.
- We have adopted an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodology to manage
CI resources efficiently.
- Potential Integration of Apache MADlib:
- There has been discussion within the community about potentially
incorporating Apache MADlib into Cloudberry.
- Current interest appears to be low, but we will hold an official vote
on this topic soon to determine the next steps.
- Documentation Improvements:
- Added and updated technical documentation to improve onboarding for new
users and contributors.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new committers or PPMC members have been elected yet.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, a lot of help on the license.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [ ] (cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [X] (cloudberry) Kent Yao
Comments: LGTM
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
[PJF] Progress looks ok but there is still some missing data for the
Incubator status https://incubator.apache.org/clutch/cloudberry.html
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### ResilientDB
ResilientDB is a distributed blockchain framework that is open-source,
lightweight, modular, and highly performant.
ResilientDB has been incubating since 2023-10-21.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on
ResDB.
2.Improve and extend documentation to help external users to set up
easily.
3.Preparing the new repo folowing ASF policy to be released.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Regular meeting continues every week.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We are preparing a release for the Repo
[ResVault](https://github.com/apache/incubator-resilientdb-resvault) and
[ResilientDB-GraphQL](https://github.com/apache/incubator-resilientdb-graphql)
which are built on ResilientDB platform to provide interfaces to access
the blockchain system.
2. We developed new smart contract features within current version on
ResilientDB platform.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
Apache ResilientDB v1.10.0-incubation (2024-7-11)
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
November of 2023
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
The mentors helped tremendously throughout the project build-up and
transfer.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues as reported here.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (resilientdb) Junping Du
Comments:
- [ ] (resilientdb) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
- [ ] (resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (resilientdb) Roman Shaposhnik
Comments:
- [ ] (resilientdb) Christian Grobmeier
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: