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 # Apache Doris (incubating)
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-Doris is an MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and analysis. It open-sourced by Baidu. 
+Doris is an MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and analysis. It is open-sourced by Baidu. 
 
 ## 1. License