What is Spring XD?

Spring XD is a unified, distributed, and extensible service for data ingestion, real time analytics, batch processing, and data export. The Spring XD project is an open source Apache 2 License licenced project whose goal is to tackle big data complexity.

What is Spark Streaming?

Spark Streaming is an extension of the core Spark API that allows data engineers and data scientists to process real-time data from various sources including (but not limited to) Kafka, Flume, and Amazon Kinesis. This processed data can be pushed out to file systems, databases, and live dashboards.

Is Spark Streaming real time?

Spark Streaming supports the processing of real-time data from various input sources and storing the processed data to various output sinks.

What is Spring Integration DSL?

The Java DSL for Spring Integration is essentially a facade for Spring Integration. The DSL provides a simple way to embed Spring Integration Message Flows into your application by using the fluent Builder pattern together with existing Java configuration from Spring Framework and Spring Integration.

Is spring a middleware?

Spring is commonly used as the foundational framework to build middleware layers. If your application will utilize REST or traditional SOAP web services in its architecture, Spring makes it easy to get all the pieces to talk to each other and stood up quickly.

What is Spark and Kafka?

Kafka is a potential messaging and integration platform for Spark streaming. Once the data is processed, Spark Streaming could be publishing results into yet another Kafka topic or store in HDFS, databases or dashboards.

What is ETL in Spark?

ETL refers to the transfer and transformation of data from one system to another using data pipelines. Data is extracted from a source, or multiple sources, often to move it to a unified platform such as a data lake or a data warehouse to deliver analytics and business intelligence.