Learning Apache Apex
by Ananth Gundabattula, Thomas Weise, Munagala V. Ramanath, David Yan, Kenneth Knowles
Stream processing systems
The first open source stream processing framework in the big data ecosystem was Apache Storm. Since then, several other Apache projects for stream processing have emerged. Next-generation streaming first architectures such as Apache Apex and Apache Flink come with stronger capabilities and are more broadly applicable. They are not only able to process data with low latency, but also provide for state management (for data that an operation may require across individual events), strong processing guarantees (correctness), fault tolerance, scalability, and high performance.
Users can now also expect such frameworks to come with comprehensive libraries of connectors, other building blocks and APIs that make development ...
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