GeaFlow

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19 Aug 2026 ¶

GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed,
large-scale, real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports
large-scale graph storage, hybrid graph and table processing,
real-time and offline graph computing, and interactive graph analysis.
The community is also developing Graph Memory as infrastructure for
agent memory.

GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Broaden the contributor and committer base across organizations and
 regions.

2. Keep review and triage timely as first-time contributions increase.

3. Maintain a predictable release cycle and high project stability.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

Since May, the community has focused on making the path into the project
clearer without lowering review standards. It published 13 good first
issues with context, reference code, test guidance, and explicit
acceptance criteria. These issues have attracted contributions from both
first-time and returning contributors. Maintainers are holding
concentrated review rounds, giving specific feedback, and resolving
overlapping implementations in public based on correctness and
maintainability.

In July, the PPMC initiated a committer nomination and vote for Xinyuan
Chen (GitHub: kitalkuyo-gita), based on sustained contributions to graph
algorithms, ISO-GQL, design discussions, and reviews of other
contributors. Xinyuan was also recognized as a 2025 Apache Doris
Community MVP.

The community is participating in Open Source Promotion Plan 2026,
GitLink Programming Summer Camp, and the Open Source Academy program.
Mentored projects cover GraphRAG, hybrid graph-text-vector retrieval, and
graph-native memory. Students use the normal issue, discussion, review,
and test process, with the goal of continuing as community contributors
after the programs end.

Litao Lin, Xinyuan Chen and Yao Zhongqiang will represent GeaFlow in
three accepted sessions at Community Over Code Asia 2026. The sessions
are in the Data + AI, Streaming, and Incubator tracks and cover agent
memory, streaming memory, and GeaFlow's incubation and technical
practice.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

The 0.8.0-incubating source release entered distribution on June 10 and
was announced on July 3. It is the second community release since
GeaFlow entered the Apache Incubator.

The release added vector storage and retrieval, Graph Memory and AI
components, graph algorithms, more ISO-GQL predicates, and new or
improved connectors. It also improved JDK 8 and JDK 11 build profiles
and release tooling. The release removed bundled Category-X MySQL JDBC
artifacts and other non-source content from the source distribution.

Merged PRs added math and date functions, a Doris connector, graph
algorithm regression tests, and safer cluster exception tests. Open
work includes MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Redis connectors, a SQLite store,
graph algorithms, SQL functions, ISO-GQL support, and an incremental
resident keyword index for AI search.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

Please feel free to add your own commentary.

- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

2026-07-03

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes, we have received helpful guidance.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No known issues.

### Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang
 Comments:
- [X] (geaflow) Xin Wang
 Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee
 Comments:
- [X] (geaflow) Paul King
 Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Justin Mclean
 Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 May 2026 ¶

GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale
real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph
storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph
computing, and interactive graph analysis. Currently, the community is
actively advancing the development of Graph Memory, aiming to serve as the
underlying infrastructure for Agent Memory.

GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1.Cultivate a more diverse community by engaging contributors and
 committers from varied organizations and global regions.

 2.Implement predictable release cycles and maintain high project
 stability to encourage broad participation and adoption.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 The GeaFlow community has maintained its core contributor base over the
 past month, with existing contributors continuing to drive development. The
 community has remained active with ongoing contributions including new
 features, optimizations, and bugfix. Additionally, several PRs are
 currently under review.

 Furthermore, multiple community contributors are actively participating
 in CoC Asia 26, which will be held in Beijing, China, and have prepared
 multiple proposals for the associated Incubator, Streaming, and Data+AI
 tracks.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 Over the past month, the GeaFlow project has continued its progress with
 a focus on code robustness, dependency management, and community
 facilitation. Key developments include:

 - Introduced the CONTRIBUTING.md file to outline contribution guidelines,
 facilitating easier onboarding for new developers (#765).
 - Enhanced code stability by adding checks for empty search results to
 prevent array out of bounds errors (#769) and handling null/empty inputs in
 average methods (#760).
 - Optimized code quality by defining the BYTES_PER_KB constant for
 consistency (#770), replacing raw type usage with type-safe methods (#766),
 and excluding conflicting lucene-core dependencies (#778).
 - Improved CI infrastructure by formatting build and test commands for
 better readability (#763).
 - New pull requests were opened targeting production GCN inference
 pipelines, hot-reload mechanisms, and vector implementation, indicating
 active development in AI capabilities and architecture optimization.

 These updates demonstrate continued advancement in codebase health,
 project infrastructure stability, and the expansion of Graph+AI features.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 The last version was released on November 19, 2025.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, we have received helpful guidance.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 N/A.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:
 - [X] (geaflow) Xin Wang
    Comments:
 - [ ] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee
    Comments:
 - [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber
    Comments:
 - [X] (geaflow) Justin Mclean
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Mar 2026 ¶

GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed
large-scale real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports
trillion-level graph storage, hybrid graph and table processing,
real-time/offline graph computing, and interactive graph analysis.

GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.

### Two most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Cultivate a more diverse community by engaging contributors and
 committers from varied organizations and global regions.
 2. Implement predictable release cycles and maintain high project
 stability to encourage broad participation and adoption.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 The GeaFlow community has maintained its core contributor base over
 the past month, with existing contributors continuing to drive
 development. The community has remained active with ongoing
 contributions including new features, optimizations, and bugfix.
 Additionally, several PRs are currently under review.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 Over the past month, the GeaFlow project has continued its progress
 with a focus on feature enhancements, code quality improvements,
 and infrastructure updates. Key developments include:

 - Introduced the CASTS operator to enhance GeaFlow's reasoning
 capabilities within the AI component (#737).
 - Refactored varint encoding/decoding constants to improve code
 readability and maintainability (#744).
 - Updated repository references in documentation to reflect
 the official Apache location (#746).
 - Fixed typos in log messages and comments across multiple files (#752).
 - New issues were opened, covering topics such as architecture design,
 documentation consistency, contributor guidance, and potential overflow
 bugs, indicating active community scrutiny and roadmap discussions.

 These updates demonstrate continued advancement in Graph+AI
 functionality, codebase health, project branding alignment,
 and community-driven evolution.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

 Please feel free to add your own commentary.
 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 The last version was released on November 19, 2025.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, we have received helpful guidance.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 N/A.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (GeaFlow) Willem Ning Jiang
 - [X] (GeaFlow) xinwang
 - [ ] (GeaFlow) lzljs3620320
 - [ ] (GeaFlow) jmclean
 - [ ] (GeaFlow) paulk

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Feb 2026 ¶

GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale
real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph
storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph
computing, and interactive graph analysis.

GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.

### Two most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Cultivate a more diverse community by engaging contributors and
  committers from varied organizations and global regions.
  2. Implement predictable release cycles and maintain high project
  stability to encourage broad participation and adoption.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?
 The GeaFlow community has maintained its core contributor base over the
 past month, with existing contributors continuing to drive development. The
 community has remained active with ongoing contributions including new
 features, optimizations, and bugfix. Additionally, several PRs are
 currently under review.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
 Over the past month, the GeaFlow project has focused on feature
 enhancements, optimizations, and dependency updates. Key changes are
 including:
 + Add ISO-GQL PROPERTY_EXISTS predicate(#702).
 + Adding Lucene & Embedding-Based Search Operators for LightWeight
   Context GraphMemory(#716).
 + Fix memory management in mmap_ipc.cpp(#725).
 + Support Graph Consolidate algorithm and added GraphMemory Java Server
   and Client(#729).

 These updates reflect ongoing progress in graph-related functionality
 expansion, code quality improvements, and Graph+AI capabilities.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 The last version was released on November 19, 2025.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
 The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, we have received helpful guidance.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 N/A.

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:
 - [X] (geaflow) Xin Wang
    Comments:
 - [ ] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee
    Comments:
 - [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber
    Comments:
 - [X] (geaflow) Justin Mclean
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

19 Nov 2025 ¶

GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale
real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph
storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph
computing, and interactive graph analysis.

GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Enhance the diversity of the community (attracting more committers,
 contributors, and users).  
 2. Release more versions under the ASF.  

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?  

 1. Four new contributors have joined the community.
 2. Participated in [2025 CSDI Summit in Shenzhen,
 China](https://www.csdisummit.com/?page=555582&), and presented work in
 the field of AI.
 3. Participated in the open source initiative [OSPP
 2025](https://github.com/summer-ospp) and helped new contributors resolve
 specific project issues.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 1. Five new features have been merged, including support for the
 distributed Paimon graph store, a new algorithm implementation for the
 incremental minimum spanning tree, JDK 11 compatibility and more. Several
 bug fixes and other improvements have also been made.
 2. The Apache GeaFlow website is published with both Chinese and English
 support.
 3. The first community release is in the second round of voting
 ([v0.7.0-rc2](https://github.com/apache/geaflow/releases/tag/v0.7.0-rc2))

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release
 - [ ] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:
 N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?  
 None since entering the incubator.
 We have several active community members and PPMC will review recent
 contributors and consider the committer nominations.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
 Yes, we have received helpful guidance.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
 N/A

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang
    Comments:
 - [X] (geaflow) Xin Wang
    Comments:
 - [X] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee
    Comments:
 - [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber
    Comments:
 - [X] (geaflow) Justin Mclean
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: