jberkus
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11 months ago Questions:
- Currently Rainforest has one maintainer. If accepted to the CNCF, what are your plans to attract additional contributors, and eventually maintainers?
- Can you explain what products Brobridge has built on Rainforest, and how those differ from Rainforest? Are they just hosted/supported versions, or something else?
- Could you do a presentation to TAG-Storage explaining how Rainforest works and how it integrates into a cloud native stack?
justincormack
Application contact emails
tachunwu.go@gmail.com
Project Summary
Ultra light-weight Data Mesh
Project Description
rainforest: Ultra Light-weight Data Mesh Engine In an era where the data landscape is undergoing massive transformation, centralized solutions like traditional data lakes and warehouses struggle to meet the needs of distributed organizations and rapid iterations. Enter Rainforest, an ultra-lightweight Data Mesh core engine.
Org repo URL (provide if all repos under the org are in scope of the application)
https://github.com/Awareness-Labs
Project repo URL in scope of application
https://github.com/Awareness-Labs/rainforest
Additional repos in scope of the application
No response
Website URL
https://awareness-labs.github.io/
Roadmap
https://github.com/Awareness-Labs/rainforest#roadmap
Roadmap context
https://github.com/Awareness-Labs/rainforest/blob/main/Roadmap.md
Contributing Guide
https://github.com/Awareness-Labs/rainforest/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
Code of Conduct (CoC)
https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/code-of-conduct.md
Adopters
https://brobridge.com/
Contributing or Sponsoring Org
https://brobridge.com/
Maintainers file
https://github.com/Awareness-Labs/rainforest/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md
IP Policy
Trademark and accounts
Why CNCF?
Why do you want to contribute the project to the CNCF?
We aim to contribute our project to the CNCF because it offers an influential platform and ecosystem that can grant our project broader exposure, support, and collaboration. Moreover, the expertise and resources of CNCF can accelerate the development and maturation of our project.
What value does being part of the CNCF provide the project?
Being part of CNCF confers multiple values to our project. Firstly, it amplifies the project's credibility and influence. Secondly, we can leverage CNCF's resources and network to expedite development and innovation. Additionally, we can participate in various CNCF events and training, further enhancing our technical and operational competencies.
Our primary motivation for choosing CNCF lies in its leadership and stellar reputation in the cloud-native technology arena. With a vast and active community, CNCF signifies diverse support and collaboration opportunities for our project. We believe that our project's philosophy aligns closely with CNCF's objectives, fostering seamless collaboration between the project and the ecosystem.
Benefit to the Landscape
The inclusion of Rainforest will enhance the CNCF ecosystem, particularly in the realm of data management solutions. In the current cloud-native landscape, decentralized organization and distributed data management are paramount challenges, especially in the context of ensuring data synchronization, efficiency, and security.
Rainforest addresses this very challenge. Unlike traditional NATS systems, Rainforest is not just a messaging system but a data management platform at a higher level of abstraction. It amalgamates the high-performance benefits of NATS and adds functionalities specifically designed for distributed data ownership and decentralization. Furthermore, its compatibility and in-built OLTP and OLAP engines make it a versatile and comprehensive solution, apt for both current and future data management needs.
In essence, the addition of Rainforest will fill a gap in the CNCF landscape, offering an advanced data management platform that aids organizations in efficiently tackling the nuances of decentralization.
Cloud Native 'Fit'
Rainforest's "fit" in the Cloud Native ecosystem is quite evident. Firstly, its distributed architecture epitomizes the core essence of cloud native, enabling elastic scaling and contraction within a cloud environment, while ensuring a high degree of fault tolerance. This guarantees high availability, maintaining system stability even in a distributed setting.
Secondly, Rainforest's decentralized data management approach is a pristine reflection of the microservices and cloud native philosophy. Offering efficient data synchronization and inter-service communication, it allows multiple independent services or applications to share and manage data without the need for centralized storage.
Moreover, being built on NATS means Rainforest can provide lightweight, efficient, and secure real-time communication in the cloud environment. This ensures data timeliness and consistency, a key demand for cloud-native applications.
In essence, Rainforest embodies the core values of cloud native through its distributed, decentralized, and real-time communication characteristics. It not only complements the cloud-native tech stack but introduces an innovative and efficient data management solution for cloud-native applications.
Cloud Native 'Integration'
No response
Cloud Native Overlap
Rainforest has a degree of overlap with several CNCF projects:
NATS: While Rainforest is built upon NATS, its functionalities go beyond NATS's basic message delivery. Rainforest offers a higher-level of data management and synchronization, whereas NATS remains focused on basic message passing.
Vitess: Vitess focuses on enabling MySQL to run in large-scale cloud environments. It has some overlap with Rainforest's data management, but Rainforest provides a more generic solution agnostic to the data source.
Cortex: Cortex provides a highly scalable and highly available Prometheus implementation. Given that Rainforest might integrate with Prometheus, there might be functional overlaps, but Rainforest's main emphasis is on data management and synchronization, not monitoring.
ETCD: ETCD is a consistent key-value store primarily used to store configuration data for Kubernetes clusters. While it too can function in data management, Rainforest offers broader data synchronization and distributed data management functionalities.
Despite these overlaps, Rainforest still holds a unique position and value in the realm of data synchronization and decentralized data management.
Similar projects
NATS
Landscape
No
Business Product or Service to Project separation
Rainforest operates as a distinct entity, entirely community-driven. Its development and governance will remain separate from any commercial product of the sponsoring company. All decisions and directions will be transparent, and any potential overlap or confusion with commercial products will be actively addressed.
Project presentations
No response
Project champions
No response
Additional information
No response