[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Gora 0.5 Released

[lewismc]

Hi Folks,
Apologies for cross posting.
The Apache Gora team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of
Apache Gora 0.5.

The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and
persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key
value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with
extensive Apache Hadoop(tm) MapReduce support. Gora uses the Apache Software
License v2.0.

This release addresses no fewer than 44 issues [0] with many being
improvements and new functionality. Most notably the release includes the
addition of a new module for MongoDB, Shim ffunctionality to support
multiple Hadoop versions, improved authentication for Accumulo, better
documentation for many modules, and pluggable solrj implementations
supporting a default value of http for HttpSolrServer. Available options
include http (HttpSolrServer), cloud (CloudSolrServer), concurrent
(ConcurrentUpdateSolrServer) and loadbalance (LBHttpSolrServer).

Suggested Gora database support is as follows

   - Apache Avro 1.7.6
   - Apache Hadoop 1.0.1 and 2.4.0
   - Apache HBase 0.94.14
   - Apache Cassandra 2.0.2
   - Apache Solr 4.8.1
   - MongoDB 2.6
   - Apache Accumlo 1.5.1

Gora is released as both source code, downloads for which can be found at
our downloads page [1] as well as Maven artifacts which can be found on
Maven central [2].

Thank you

Lewis

(on behalf of the Apache Gora PMC)

[0] http://s.apache.org/0.5report
[1] http://gora.apache.org/downloads.html
[2] http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|gora