Meet Gravitino, a geo-distributed, federated metadata lake

In the era of agentic AI, attention has largely focused on data itself, while metadata has remained a neglected concern. Junping (JP) Du, founder and CEO of Datastrato, argues that this must change as AI fundamentally alters how data and metadata are consumed, governed, and understood. To address this gap, Datastrato created Apache Gravitino, an open source, high-performance, geo-distributed, federated metadata lake designed to act as a neutral control plane for metadata and governance across multi-modal, multi-engine AI workloads.

Gravitino achieved major milestones in 2025, including graduation as an Apache Top Level Project, a stable 1.1.0 release, and membership in the new Agentic AI Foundation. Du describes Gravitino as a “catalog of catalogs” that unifies metadata across engines like Spark, Trino, Ray, and PyTorch, eliminating silos and inconsistencies. Built to support both structured and unstructured data, Gravitino enables secure, consistent, and AI-friendly data access across clouds and regions, helping enterprises manage governance, access control, and scalability in increasingly complex AI environments.

Learn more from The New Stack about how the latest data and metadata are consumed, governed, and understood:

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