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# Apache Flink vs. Talend
Apache Flink and Talend are two popular tools in the field of data processing and integration. Here are some key differences between the two:
1. **Processing Model**: Apache Flink is designed for real-time stream processing with capabilities for batch processing as well, while Talend focuses more on data integration and ETL processes, making it suitable for both real-time and batch processing.
2. **Scalability**: Apache Flink offers better scalability as it can handle massive amounts of data with its distributed processing capabilities, while Talend may face limitations in handling large-scale processing tasks due to its architecture.
3. **Programming Language**: Apache Flink is primarily Java-based but also supports Scala and Python, providing more flexibility for developers, whereas Talend uses its proprietary language and graphical interface for designing data integration jobs.
4. **Community Support**: Apache Flink has a strong open-source community backing it up, with continuous updates and improvements, while Talend, being a commercial tool, may have limitations in terms of community support and flexibility in customization.
5. **Use Cases**: Apache Flink is ideal for complex data processing tasks that involve real-time analytics, machine learning, and event-driven applications, whereas Talend is more suitable for traditional ETL, data warehousing, and data integration projects.
6. **Deployment Options**: Apache Flink can be deployed on various cloud platforms and on-premises, offering more flexibility in terms of deployment options, whereas Talend may have limitations in deployment flexibility and scalability.
In Summary, Apache Flink is more suitable for real-time stream processing and complex data analytics tasks, while Talend is better suited for traditional ETL and data integration projects.
We have a Kafka topic having events of type A and type B. We need to perform an inner join on both type of events using some common field (primary-key). The joined events to be inserted in Elasticsearch.
In usual cases, type A and type B events (with same key) observed to be close upto 15 minutes. But in some cases they may be far from each other, lets say 6 hours. Sometimes event of either of the types never come.
In all cases, we should be able to find joined events instantly after they are joined and not-joined events within 15 minutes.
The first solution that came to me is to use upsert to update ElasticSearch:
- Use the primary-key as ES document id
- Upsert the records to ES as soon as you receive them. As you are using upsert, the 2nd record of the same primary-key will not overwrite the 1st one, but will be merged with it.
Cons: The load on ES will be higher, due to upsert.
To use Flink:
- Create a KeyedDataStream by the primary-key
- In the ProcessFunction, save the first record in a State. At the same time, create a Timer for 15 minutes in the future
- When the 2nd record comes, read the 1st record from the State, merge those two, and send out the result, and clear the State and the Timer if it has not fired
- When the Timer fires, read the 1st record from the State and send out as the output record.
- Have a 2nd Timer of 6 hours (or more) if you are not using Windowing to clean up the State
Pro: if you have already having Flink ingesting this stream. Otherwise, I would just go with the 1st solution.
Please refer "Structured Streaming" feature of Spark. Refer "Stream - Stream Join" at https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/structured-streaming-programming-guide.html#stream-stream-joins . In short you need to specify "Define watermark delays on both inputs" and "Define a constraint on time across the two inputs"
I am trying to build a data lake by pulling data from multiple data sources ( custom-built tools, excel files, CSV files, etc) and use the data lake to generate dashboards.
My question is which is the best tool to do the following:
- Create pipelines to ingest the data from multiple sources into the data lake
- Help me in aggregating and filtering data available in the data lake.
- Create new reports by combining different data elements from the data lake.
I need to use only open-source tools for this activity.
I appreciate your valuable inputs and suggestions. Thanks in Advance.
Hi Karunakaran. I obviously have an interest here, as I work for the company, but the problem you are describing is one that Zetaris can solve. Talend is a good ETL product, and Dremio is a good data virtualization product, but the problem you are describing best fits a tool that can combine the five styles of data integration (bulk/batch data movement, data replication/data synchronization, message-oriented movement of data, data virtualization, and stream data integration). I may be wrong, but Zetaris is, to the best of my knowledge, the only product in the world that can do this. Zetaris is not a dashboarding tool - you would need to combine us with Tableau or Qlik or PowerBI (or whatever) - but Zetaris can consolidate data from any source and any location (structured, unstructured, on-prem or in the cloud) in real time to allow clients a consolidated view of whatever they want whenever they want it. Please take a look at www.zetaris.com for more information. I don't want to do a "hard sell", here, so I'll say no more! Warmest regards, Rod Beecham.
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- Unified batch and stream processing16
- Easy to use streaming apis8
- Out-of-the box connector to kinesis,s3,hdfs8
- Open Source4
- Low latency2
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