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This Cloudberry incubation report summarizes our major progress during August and October 2025. It is adapted from the Apache Incubator Report November 2025, with some modifications for readability.

Cloudberry

Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of Pivotal Greenplum Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14 kernel, whereas Greenplum is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade brings enhanced enterprise capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited for data warehousing, large-scale analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11.

Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Grow the contributor and community to ensure long-term sustainability.
2. Publish a few more Apache releases following the ASF release processes.

How has the community developed since the last report?

• Mailing list Activity: 210 new emails on the Dev mailing list since the last report, covering community, technical and Apache-related discussions.
• GitHub Discussions: 14 new threads since last report.
• New Committers:
  • Sep 25, 2025 - Leonid Borchuk (leborchuk)
• Events:
  • Apache Cloudberry Meetup organized in Beijing on August 16, 2025, which attracted 30~ attendees. This meetup focused on the new features and highlights of the 2.0.0 release and the Apache way. See recap post at https://s.apache.org/xqyi9.
  • Our committer Leonid Borchuk presented a talk, "PAX — column store for Apache Cloudberry/Postgres 14", at PGConf.SPb 2025 in Saint Petersburg on September 29, 2025. See details at https://pgconf.ru/talk/2484244.

How has the project developed since the last report?

• Publish the first Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) 2.0.0 release on August 25, 2025. See announcement email at https://s.apache.org/fn13p
• PostgreSQL Kernel upgrade (14~>16): the work has been in progress. See the monthly report at https://s.apache.org/kp3lj
• 113 new commits to the main branch since the last report, focusing on CI, performance, bug fixes, and new features.
• Sub-repositories:
  • Archived the apache/cloudberry-devops-release repo and migrated these files to the devops/ directory of the main repository.
  • For the backup tool repos:
    • The cloudberry-gpbackup repo has been renamed to cloudberry-backup, reflecting the project’s independence and alignment with the Cloudberry brand. Its codebase has synced with the GP’s archived version.
    • The core files from apache/cloudberry-gpbackup-s3-plugin have been merged into the cloudberry-backup repos under plugins/s3plugin. Now, the S3 plugin will be installed together with Cloudberry Backup.
  • The cloudberry-pxf is still in progress on the archived Greenplum commits sync to Cloudberry.
  • cloudberry-go-libs has synced with the GP’s archived version.
• Started the discussion on the next release 2.1.0. See discussion at https://s.apache.org/rx7s8
• It has been one year since Cloudberry joined the ASF Incubator. Here is our Roadmap recap at https://s.apache.org/5fxn9
• Ecosystem:
  • The community developers are working with the Apache MADlib team to add support for Cloudberry to MADlib upstream. See the PR at https://github.com/apache/madlib/pull/627
  • The PostGIS for Cloudberry has been upgraded from 2.5 to 3.3.2

How would you assess the podling's maturity?

• Initial setup
• Working towards first release
• Community building
• Nearing graduation
• Other:

Date of last release:

• August 25, 2025

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

• Sep 25, 2025 - Leonid Borchuk (leborchuk)