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Apache Spark Streaming Valuable Features

Oscar Estorach - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Data-strategist and Director at Theworkshop.es

What I like about Spark is its versatility in supporting multiple languages and that makes it my preferred choice for building scalable and efficient systems, whether it is hooking databases with web applications or handling large-scale data transformations.

Apache Spark Streaming is versatile. You can use it for competitive intelligence, gathering data from competitors, or for internal tasks like monitoring workflows. It works well in the cloud, and you can structure data using Databricks or Spark, providing flexibility for different projects.

Spark Streaming's flexibility shines when dealing with large-scale data streams. It caters to different needs, offering real-time insights for tasks like online sales analytics. The ability to prioritize data streams is valuable, especially for monitoring competitor prices online.

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AbhishekGupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Leader at Walmart

Apache Spark Streaming's most valuable feature is near real-time analytics. The developers can build APIs easily for a code-steaming pipeline. The solutions have an ecosystem of integration with other stock services.

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Prashast Tripathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Apache Spark Streaming has features like checkpointing and Streaming API that are useful.

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AM
Head of Data Science center of excellence at Ameriabank CJSC

Spark Streaming is critical, quite stable, full-featured, and scalable. It has a low latency and high performance, comparable to functions that can be called by triggers. It is well-designed with good documentation, making it easy to find solutions.

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DR
Chief Technology Officer at Teslon Technologies Pvt Ltd

With Spark Streaming, there was native Python support, which was beneficial for us. It was easy to deploy as a cluster, and the website was user-friendly. The documentation was also pretty good, and there was strong community support. Overall, it was considered an industry standard at the time.

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SB
Sr Technical Analyst at Sumtotal

Data streaming would be the best feature of Spark and that includes when it's compared to Hadoop or Hive or Cassandra. It's the fastest solution on the market with low latency data on data transformations. I like that it's open source and easy to integrate with other data sources. 

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reviewer1494531 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Science at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I like that it's Python. We have a Python ecosystem. Therefore, it fits perfectly.

The initial setup is simple. 

The solution can scale.

It's a stable product.

As an open-source solution, using it is basically free.

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Oscar Estorach - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Data-strategist and Director at Theworkshop.es

The solution is very stable and reliable. It's quite mature. 

The solution scales very well.

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RK
DevOps engineer at Vvolve management consultants

Apache Spark Streaming is particularly good at handling real-time data. It has built-in data streaming integration, which allows it to stream data from any source as soon as it becomes available.

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reviewer1516182 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Innovation & Technology Leader at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is better than average and some of the valuable features include efficiency and stability.

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reviewer2392494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Data Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 11-50 employees

The platform’s most valuable feature for processing real-time data is its ability to handle continuous data streams.

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