Junping Du
Founder and CEO of Datastrato and original creator of Apache Gravitino, an open-source geo-distributed, federated metadata lake; experienced data infrastructure engineer focused on AI-native metadata and governance.
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Sep 1, 2024 • 39min
Enhancing Data Accessibility and Governance with Gravitino
Junping Du, an expert in data management and the creator of Gravitino, discusses how this open-source metadata service revolutionizes data accessibility and governance. He explains Gravitino's unified interface for querying diverse data sources, addressing challenges in managing both structured and unstructured data. Junping highlights the importance of centralized governance and the tool's architectural design that promotes operational efficiency. Additionally, he talks about bridging gaps between data and AI professionals to foster collaboration and innovation in the field.
Jan 29, 2026 • 29min
Meet Gravitino, a geo-distributed, federated metadata lake
Junping (JP) Du, founder and CEO of Datastrato and creator of Apache Gravitino, builds open-source, geo-distributed metadata infrastructure. He discusses Gravitino as a catalog-of-catalogs that unifies metadata across engines, its engine-neutral governance role, multimodal and cross-cloud support, v1.1 milestones, and the roadmap toward agent-native metadata and broader engine integration.
