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Anyone looking for a distributed stream processing framework
About Samza
Samza allows you to build stateful applications that process data in real-time from multiple sources including Apache Kafka. Battle-tested at scale, it supports flexible deployment options to run on YARN or as a standalone library. Samza provides extremely low latencies and high throughput to analyze your data instantly. Scales to several terabytes of state with features like incremental checkpoints and host-affinity. Samza is easy to operate with flexible deployment options - YARN, Kubernetes or standalone. Ability to run the same code to process both batch and streaming data. Integrates with several sources including Kafka, HDFS, AWS Kinesis, Azure Eventhubs, K-V stores and ElasticSearch.
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Apache Software Foundation
Founded: 1999
United States
samza.apache.org
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