MehulBatra commented on code in PR #1288: URL: https://github.com/apache/fluss/pull/1288#discussion_r2191663811
########## website/blog/2025-07-08-fluss-asf-donation.md: ########## @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +--- +slug: fluss-asf-donation +title: "Fluss Joins the Apache Incubator" +sidebar_label: "Introducing Fluss" +authors: [jark] +--- + +<!-- + Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one + or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file + distributed with this work for additional information + regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file + to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the + "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance + with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + + Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + limitations under the License. +--> + +On June 5th, the next-generation streaming storage project Fluss, which was open-sourced and donated by Alibaba, successfully passed the vote and officially became an incubator project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), +the world's largest open-source foundation. This marks a significant milestone in the development of the Fluss community, symbolizing that the project has entered a new phase that is more open, +neutral, and standardized. +Moving forward, Fluss will leverage the ASF ecosystem to accelerate the building of a global developer community, continuously driving innovation and adoption of next-generation real-time data infrastructure. + + +<!-- truncate --> + +The Fluss community has recently completed all the donation procedures, and the Fluss project has been officially transferred to the Apache Software Foundation. +During the keynote speech at Flink Forward Asia 2025, held on July 3rd in Singapore, project creator Jark Wu officially announced the exciting news, +sharing the new [repository address](https://github.com/apache/fluss/) and the [official website domain](https://fluss.apache.org/). + + + +### What is Apache Fluss (Incubating)? + + +Apache Fluss (incubating) is a next-generation streaming storage designed for real-time analytics scenarios. +It aims to address the high costs and inefficiencies of traditional streaming storage technologies in stream processing and Lakehouse architectures. +It offers the following core features: + +* **Columnar Streaming Storage:** Supports real-time streaming read and write with millisecond-level latency. Real-time streaming data is stored in the Apache Arrow columnar format to leverage query pushdown technologies such as column pruning and partition pruning during streaming read. It improves read performance by up to 10 times and reduces network costs. +* **Real-Time Updates and Lookup Queries:** Innovatively introduces real-time update capabilities into stream storage. Through high-performance streaming updates, partial updates, changelog feed, key-value lookup, and DeltaJoin features, it collaborates efficiently with Flink to build a cost-effective, real-time streaming data warehouse. +* **Streaming Lakehouse:** Achieves unified storage of data lakehouse and data streams, enabling data sharing between them. The Lakehouse provides low-cost historical data support for streams, while streams inject real-time data capabilities into the Lakehouse, delivering real-time data analysis experiences to the Lakehouse. + +### The Two-Year Journey +In July 2023, the Flink team at Alibaba Cloud launched the Fluss project. +The name **"Fluss"** is derived from the abbreviation of "**Fl**ink **U**nified **S**treaming **S**torage", **signifying its mission to build a unified streaming storage foundation for Apache Flink**. +Coincidentally, "Fluss" means **"river"** in German, symbolizing the continuous flow of data. + +After more than a year of internal incubation and refinement, on November 29, 2024, during the keynote speech at Flink Forward Asia 2024 held in Shanghai, Alibaba officially announced the open-sourcing of the Fluss project. Review Comment: Improved tone version: After more than a year of internal incubation and refinement, Alibaba officially announced the open-sourcing of the Fluss project on November 29, 2024, during the keynote speech at Flink Forward Asia 2024 in Shanghai. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
