The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Ozone V.2.0.0 

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, announced Apache Ozone 2.0.0, a major milestone for the cloud-native distributed object store built for big data, analytics, and AI workloads.

“Apache Ozone 2.0.0 represents years of community collaboration and production lessons from large-scale deployments,” said Sammi Chen, PMC chair, Apache Ozone and principal engineer, Cloudera, Inc. “We’re seeing growing adoption of Ozone in production, and this release brings the stability, performance, and ecosystem integration users have asked for.“

Ozone 2.0.0 responds to growing demand from organizations building AI and analytics platforms that require scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-efficient storage – without giving up on performance or operational ease.

Key Highlights of Apache Ozone 2.0.0:

• Operational Database Support: Apache Ozone is the 1st object store to support Apache HBase, enabling low-latency RW workloads alongside traditional object storage.
• Atomic Key Operations: Support for atomic key overwrite and key replacement improves consistency for applications running concurrently.
• Modernized Recon UI: The Ozone Recon monitoring interface has been redesigned for clarity, with better metrics and navigation to support administrators.
• Expanded Platform Support: Now compatible with JDK 17 and JDK 21, and builds natively on ARM64, enabling broader deployment options.
• Improved Snapshots: Snapshot operations are more robust and efficient, particularly in large-scale environments with frequent replication or churn.
• Day-2 Operations: SCM decommissioning is now supported, making it easier to safely remove or rotate hardware as part of lifecycle management.

With version 2.0.0, Apache Ozone continues its evolution from an object store for Apache Hadoop to a modern, cloud-native storage platform designed for AI, data lakehouses, and hybrid cloud use cases.

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