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Spring Batch vs Talend: What are the differences?
What is Spring Batch? A lightweight, comprehensive batch framework. It is designed to enable the development of robust batch applications vital for the daily operations of enterprise systems It also provides reusable functions that are essential in processing large volumes of records, including logging/tracing, transaction management, job processing statistics, job restart, skip, and resource management..
What is Talend? A single, unified suite for all integration needs. It is an open source software integration platform helps you in effortlessly turning data into business insights. It uses native code generation that lets you run your data pipelines seamlessly across all cloud providers and get optimized performance on all platforms.
Spring Batch belongs to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack, while Talend can be primarily classified under "Big Data Tools".
Spring Batch is an open source tool with 1.3K GitHub stars and 1.3K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring Batch's open source repository on GitHub.
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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