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Apache Spark vs Zato: What are the differences?

Developers describe Apache Spark as "Fast and general engine for large-scale data processing". Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning. On the other hand, Zato is detailed as "Open-source ESB, SOA, REST and Cloud Integrations in Python". Build and orchestrate integration services, expose new or existing APIs, either cloud or on-premise, and use a wide range of connectors, data formats and protocols.

Apache Spark and Zato can be primarily classified as "Big Data" tools.

Some of the features offered by Apache Spark are:

  • Run programs up to 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce in memory, or 10x faster on disk
  • Write applications quickly in Java, Scala or Python
  • Combine SQL, streaming, and complex analytics

On the other hand, Zato provides the following key features:

  • Highly scalable enterprise integration platform and backend application server in Python
  • Browser-based GUI, CLI and API - designed by pragmatists for pragmatists
  • Protocols, industry standards and data formats - Odoo, SAP, IBM MQ, REST, Publish/Subscribe Queues, Single Sign-On, AMQP, SOAP, SQL, NoSQL, Caching, Kafka, WebSockets, LDAP, ElasticSearch, SMS, ZeroMQ, RBAC, Cassandra, S3, JMS and more

Apache Spark and Zato are both open source tools. Apache Spark with 22.9K GitHub stars and 19.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Zato with 783 GitHub stars and 185 GitHub forks.

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Nilesh Akhade
Technical Architect at Self Employed · | 5 upvotes · 517.1K views

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.

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The first solution that came to me is to use upsert to update ElasticSearch:

  1. Use the primary-key as ES document id
  2. 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:

  1. Create a KeyedDataStream by the primary-key
  2. In the ProcessFunction, save the first record in a State. At the same time, create a Timer for 15 minutes in the future
  3. 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
  4. When the Timer fires, read the 1st record from the State and send out as the output record.
  5. 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.

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Akshaya Rawat
Senior Specialist Platform at Publicis Sapient · | 3 upvotes · 361.6K views
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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"

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    Fast and Flexible
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    One platform for every big data problem
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    Great for distributed SQL like applications
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    Easy to install and to use
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    Works well for most Datascience usecases
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    Interactive Query
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      What is Apache Spark?

      Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.

      What is Zato?

      Connect, integrate and automate all of your systems, APIs and apps, including cloud and legacy ones, using an open-source integration platform in Python. ESB, SOA, REST, API and Cloud Integrations in Python.

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