Aerospike Gives Legacy Infrastructure a Real-Time Boost

A database connector upgrade released this week by Aerospike Inc. links open source frameworks like Apache Spark data streaming to existing enterprise data infrastructure. Among the goals is providing backward compati Read more…

Apache Pulsar Ready for Prime Time

A streaming and messaging system aimed at stream processing has been elevated from incubator to “top-level project” status by the Apache Foundation. Apache Pulsar was released as open source by Yahoo in 2016 and Read more…

Streamlio Claims Pulsar Performance Advantages Over Kafka

Streamlio, a startup created a real-time streaming analytics platform on top of Apache Pulsar and Apache Heron, today published results of stream processing benchmark that claims Pulsar has up to a 150% performance impro Read more…

Yahoo Unleashes HBase Transaction Manager

A transaction manager for the NoSQL database HBase has been approved as an open-source incubator project, according to project sponsor Yahoo. The HBase transaction manager dubbed "Omid" ("Hope" in Persian) is the late Read more…

Yahoo’s New Pulsar: A Kafka Competitor?

Yahoo today announced that it's open sourcing Pulsar, a new distributed "publish and subscribe" messaging systems designed to be highly scalable while maintaining low levels of latency. The bus already backs some of Yaho Read more…

Real-Time Streaming Gone ‘Bananas’

Akuda Labs is touting the throughput and power of a real-time stream data processing system it released last week. The company says the software, dubbed Bananas, runs 10 times faster that Apache Spark Streaming, with con Read more…