WILMINGTON, DE — The Apache Software Foundation has granted independent project status to three open-source technologies supporting big data processing, cloud authentication and blockchain infrastructure, expanding the foundation’s portfolio of software maintained under separate community governance.
Apache Auron, Apache Reqsign and Apache ResilientDB have become Top-Level Projects, a designation that gives each project its own management committee responsible for development, releases and long-term maintenance.
Auron and ResilientDB graduated from the Apache Incubator, while Reqsign became an independent project after operating as a component of Apache OpenDAL.
The changes establish separate governance structures for technologies serving different parts of enterprise computing, including data analytics, cloud services and distributed transaction systems.
Apache Auron accelerates large-scale data queries using native vectorized execution, a processing method designed to improve computational efficiency.
The project integrates with Apache Spark and Apache Flink, as well as data lakehouse technologies including Apache Paimon, Apache Iceberg and Apache Hudi.
According to the foundation, Auron completed all TPC-DS and TPC-H benchmark cases and delivered twice the processing speed of Apache Spark 3.5 while using an average of 50% fewer cluster resources.
Those performance figures represent the project’s reported benchmark results rather than a guarantee of equivalent improvements across production workloads.
Apache Reqsign addresses a different infrastructure requirement: authenticating HTTP requests sent to cloud services without relying on large, provider-specific software development kits.
Written in Rust, the software supports authentication for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure Storage, Google Cloud, Aliyun OSS, Huawei Cloud OBS, Oracle Cloud and Tencent Cloud Object Storage.
Reqsign supports AWS Signature Version 4 and its multi-region variant, SigV4a. It can obtain credentials from environment variables, configuration files and identity and access management roles.
The technology is already used by Apache OpenDAL, uv and Lance, according to the foundation.
“That adoption across data infrastructure and developer tools shows the value of maintaining this shared foundation together,” said Zili Chen, chair of the Apache Reqsign Project Management Committee.
Apache ResilientDB, meanwhile, provides a permissioned blockchain framework designed to maintain consistent transaction records even when some participating computers fail or behave maliciously.
The system uses Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus, parallel processing and pipelined execution to support distributed transaction processing.
Its associated ResAI tool suite includes Beacon for examining documentation and source code, Nexus for exploring research and consensus protocols, and ContractForge for generating and deploying smart contracts.
ResilientDB originated as a research project at the University of California, Davis, in 2018. It entered the Apache Incubator in 2023 and graduated in September 2026.
Mohammad Sadoghi, chair of the ResilientDB Project Management Committee, described the transition as “a milestone eight years in the making.”
Top-Level Project status places all three technologies under independent project management within the Apache Software Foundation, allowing their contributor communities to oversee development and maintenance as standalone open-source projects.
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