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Hadoop vs Spark: Main Big Data Tools Explained

AltexSoft

A powerful Big Data tool, Apache Hadoop alone is far from being almighty. The module can absorb live data streams from Apache Kafka , Apache Flume , Amazon Kinesis , Twitter, and other sources and process them as micro-batches. Just for reference, Spark Streaming and Kafka combo is used by.

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Big Data Technologies that Everyone Should Know in 2024

Knowledge Hut

This article will discuss big data analytics technologies, technologies used in big data, and new big data technologies. Check out the Big Data courses online to develop a strong skill set while working with the most powerful Big Data tools and technologies.

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Kafka vs RabbitMQ - A Head-to-Head Comparison for 2023

ProjectPro

As a big data architect or a big data developer, when working with Microservices-based systems, you might often end up in a dilemma whether to use Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ for messaging. Rabbit MQ vs. Kafka - Which one is a better message broker? What is Kafka? Why Kafka vs RabbitMQ ?

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Data Engineering Annotated Monthly – July 2021

Big Data Tools

Rack-aware Kafka streams – Kafka has already been rack-aware for a while, which gives its users more confidence. When data is replicated between different racks housed in different locations, if anything bad happens to one rack, it won’t happen to another. Flink plans to add support for async sinks to address this question.

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Data Engineering Annotated Monthly – July 2021

Big Data Tools

Rack-aware Kafka streams – Kafka has already been rack-aware for a while, which gives its users more confidence. When data is replicated between different racks housed in different locations, if anything bad happens to one rack, it won’t happen to another. Flink plans to add support for async sinks to address this question.

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Data Engineering Annotated Monthly – April 2022

Big Data Tools

Kafka was the first, and soon enough, everybody was trying to grab their own share of the market. In the case of RocketMQ, their attempt is very interesting because, unlike Kafka and Pulsar, RocketMQ is closer to traditional MQs like ActiveMQ (which isn’t really surprising, seeing how it’s based on ActiveMQ).

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Data Engineering Annotated Monthly – April 2022

Big Data Tools

Kafka was the first, and soon enough, everybody was trying to grab their own share of the market. In the case of RocketMQ, their attempt is very interesting because, unlike Kafka and Pulsar, RocketMQ is closer to traditional MQs like ActiveMQ (which isn’t really surprising, seeing how it’s based on ActiveMQ).