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The Apache Incubator provides a path for projects and their communities that want to enter the ASF.

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an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms such as XML or JSON

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a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data

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A distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem

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Incubating Projects

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path into The Apache Software Foundation for projects and their communities wishing to become part of the Foundation’s efforts. All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects seeking to join the Apache community enter through the Incubator.

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Milagro

Milagro is core security infrastructure and crypto libraries for decentralized networks and distributed systems.

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Teaclave

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform.

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Liminal

Apache Liminal is an end-to-end platform for data engineers and scientists, allowing them to build, train and deploy machine learning models in a robust and agile way.

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