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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Gluten and Apache Polaris have become Top-Level Projects (TLPs).
Apache Gluten is an open-source middle-layer plugin designed to dramatically accelerate Apache Spark SQL and DataFrame workloads. It acts as a bridge, offloading compute-intensive tasks from the JVM-based Spark to high-performance native engines such as Velox or ClickHouse, with an extensible architecture designed to enable future integration with ASF projects like Apache DataFusion.
Apache Polaris is an open source, fully-featured catalog for Apache Iceberg. It implements Iceberg’s REST API, enabling seamless multi-engine interoperability across a wide range of platforms, including Apache Doris, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Dremio OSS, StarRocks, and Trino.
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