Apache Apex

What do you like best?

Apache Apex is scalable, easy to use, and user friendly. It provides real-time insights with greater program ability, supports batch processing, and maintains a large volume of data expeditiously offering high throughput on streaming. Being a distributed architecture is compatible with various business intelligence tools. Scalability is adopted by partitioning which allows work distribution and adaptation to load spikes. Most significantly, Apache Apex uses checkpointing which in terms search for fault tolerance and recovery.

What do you dislike?

It's quite tough when it comes to implementation and working with the procedures, one needs to be a Tech-savvy. Being a top-notch Hadoop tool users might find difficulty in resource allocation. Programming Interface is based on Java, though it supports JVM based languages, still lacks the convenience for design and development.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Highly recommendable! Just make sure you go with the official documentation before starting.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

As being a data-driven streaming analytics solution Apache Apex focuses on operator allocation, execution time and allows developers to understand the delicate environment between networking and serialization cost.