by Angela Guess

According to a new press release, “The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache® Geode™ has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project’s community and products have been well-governed under the ASF’s meritocratic process and principles. Apache Geode is an Open Source in-memory data grid that provides transactional data management for scale-out applications needing low latency response times during high concurrent processing. ‘Graduating as a Top-Level Project marks an important milestone for Apache Geode,’ said Mark Bretl, Vice President of Apache Geode. ‘Our community is proud to champion a diverse group of developers and users whose support has helped Geode reach a sustainable level of maturity’.”

The release goes on, “The Geode codebase was originally developed by Gemstone Systems in 2002. GemFire, the original commercial distribution of Geode, was first widely adopted by the financial sector as the transactional, low-latency data engine used in Wall Street trading platforms. Pivotal®, which owns the GemFire technology, submitted the Geode code to the Apache Incubator in April 2015. ‘We are excited to see Geode graduate from the Apache Incubator to a Top-Level Project. It’s quite a feat to transform a mature commercial product into a widely adopted open source project,’ said Elisabeth Hendrickson, VP of Big Data R&D at Pivotal. ‘The committers in Geode have worked hard at building community and making the project accessible to newcomers, paving the way for developers everywhere to benefit from a proven in memory data grid technology’.”

Read more at Globe Newswire.

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