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Tajo, a big data open source project predominantly developed by domestic developers, has gotten recognition from developers around the world.

The open source project Tajo, an on-going project led by domestic big data company Gruter, was chosen as a “top level” project on March 23 by the Apache Foundation, the world’s biggest open source organization. Tajo made its introduction in the Apache Foundation in March, last year.

The foundation endows incubator project status to a developer running a new open source project. In the incubator project, the developer of the project has limited rights. The foundation’s mentor developers participate in incubating, helping nurture the initial phase of the open source project with both advice and restrictions.

The top level, which Tajo successfully joined, means making it a full-fledged open source project after finishing the incubation phase, becoming an official open source project acknowledged by the foundation.

Quite a few projects fade away in the incubation phase due to not getting enough developers or dropping out during the phase. On the average, a project needs to stand 2 or 3 years at the incubatory level to proceed to the next top level. However, Tajo was upgraded to the top level within one year, which is a lot faster than other projects.

Tajo’s top level upgrade is judged to be significant since it was achieved by developers in Asia, branded as a big data peripheral region. According to Gruter, 100 projects have received top level status since the establishment of the Apache Foundation in 1999. The majority of top level projects are led by America and Europe, making it hard to find them in Asia.

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