Dear Incubator PMC,
There has been some discussion around the Cassandra proposal,
and we would now like to officially propose Cassandra to the Incubator
for consideration..
Please vote on accepting Cassandra project for incubation. The full
Cassandra proposal is available at the end of this message and as a wiki
page at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/Cassandra. We ask the
Incubator PMC to sponsor the Cassandra podling, with Brian as the
Champion, and Torsten, Matthieu, and Ian volunteering to mentor as well.
The vote is open for the next 72 hours and only votes from the
Incubator PMC are binding.
[ ] +1 Accept Cassandra as a new podling
[ ] -1 Do not accept the new podling (provide reason, please)
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= Abstract =
Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing
structured/unstructured data while providing reliability at a massive scale.
= Background =
Development of Cassandra started in Facebook in June 2007. It started of
a system to solve the Inbox Search problem and since then has
matured to solve various storage problems associated with
structured/unstructured data.
= Rationale =
Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing structured data
that is designed to scale to a very large size across many commodity
servers, with no single point of failure.
The philosophy behind the design of the storage portion of Cassandra is
that it be able to satisfy the requirements of applications that demand
storage of large amounts of structured data. Reliability at massive
scale is a very big challenge. Outages in the service can have
significant negative impact. Hence Cassandra aims to run on top of an
infrastructure of hundreds of nodes (possibly spread across different
datacenters). At this scale, small and large components fail
continuously; the way Cassandra manages the persistent state in the face
of these failures drives the reliability and scalability of the software
systems relying on this service.
= Initial Source =
Intial Source can be obtained from the following site -
http://the-cassandra-project.googlecode.com/svn/branches/development/.
The mailing list is currently maintained at the same site.
We will move it over to Apache once this proposal has been accepted.
= Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan =
= External Dependencies =
* All dependencies have Apache compatible licenses. Dependencies are
log4j, Thrift, Apache Commons.
= Cryptography =
* None
= Committers =
* Avinash Lakshman
* Prashant Malik
* Kannan Muthukkaruppan
* Jiansheng Huang
* Dan Dumitriu
= Current Status =
== Meritocracy ==
* Though initial development was done at Facebook, Cassandra was
intended to be released as an open source project from its inception.
Environment will lend itself to support meritocracy at all times.
== Community ==
* Folks who are actively considering deploying/prototyping Cassandra in
their respective organizations.
== Core Developers ==
* Avinash Lakshman
* Prashant Malik
* Kannan Muthukkaruppan
== License ==
* The Cassandra codebase is Apache 2.0 licensed, and currently hosted at
Google Code.
= Known Risks/Avoiding the Warning Signs =
== Orphaned Products ==
* Cassandra is already deployed within Facebook and many other
organizations are actively moving to deploy this in production. Original
developers
are and will actively stay involved and hence there is no realistic
chance of it getting orphaned.
== Homogenous Developers ==
* The current list of committers includes developers from different
companies. The committers are geographically distributed across the U.S.
== Reliance on Salaried Developers ==
* Yes. But don't expect this to be a risk of any nature.
== Relationships with Other Apache Products ==
* The Cassandra project is 'similar' to hbase/HDFS in concept, but
Cassandra is more geared for Online web site usage than batch. It also
doesn't have a single point of failure, which makes it interesting as well.
* Cassandra makes use of the Thrift project.
== An excessive fascination with the Apache brand ==
* Cassandra has already attracted a stable base of users. There are at
least 3 companies who are planning to use Cassandra in production as far
as we know. The reasons for joining Apache are not to advertise the
project, but rather to demonstrate the commitment to open source by
divorcing the trunk from any one corporation and pursuing further
integration with other Apache projects.
= Required Resources =
== Mailing lists ==
Once the project is approved, the following mailing lists will be used
for discussion.
* cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org
<mailto:cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org>
== Subversion Directory ==
*[WWW] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra
== Issue Tracking ==
* JIRA Cassandra
= Sponsors =
== Champion ==
* Brian McCallister
== Mentors ==
* Torsten Curdt
* Brian McCallister
* Matthieu Riou
* Ian Holsman
== Sponsoring Entity ==
* Incubator
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