The purpose of Components Contrib is to provide open, community driven reusable components for building distributed applications. These components are being used by the Dapr project, but are separate and decoupled from it.
AsterixDB is a BDMS (Big Data Management System) with a rich feature set that sets it apart from other Big Data platforms. Its feature set makes it well-suited to modern needs such as web data warehousing and social data storage and analysis.
Apache Apex is a unified platform for big data stream and batch processing. Use cases include ingestion, ETL, real-time analytics, alerts and real-time actions.