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 2. **How does OpenMLDB evolve?**
    
    OpenMLDB originated from the commercial product of [4Paradigm](https://www.4paradigm.com/) (a leading artificial intelligence service provider). In 2021, the core team has abstracted, enhanced and developed community-friendly features based on the commercial product; and then makes it publicly available as an open-source project to benefit more enterprises to achieve successful digital transformations at low cost. Before the open-source, it had been successfully deployed in hundreds of real-world ML applications together with 4Paradigm's other commercial products.
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+Irrespective of the name, it is unrelated to MLDB, a different open source project in development since 2015.
    
 3. **Is OpenMLDB a feature store?**