Apache Apex
| Company type | Open-source software project |
|---|---|
| Industry | Big data, Software |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder | DataTorrent |
| Defunct | September 2019 |
| Fate | Development ended |
| Headquarters | San Jose , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Apache Apex (Apex Core, Apex Malhar) |
| Owner | The Apache Software Foundation |
Apache Apex is a platform designed natively for YARN that integrates both streaming and batch processing capabilities. It enables the handling of big data in real time, offering features such as scalability, high performance, fault resilience, state management, security, distributed computing, and ease of operation.
On April 25, 2016, Apache Apex was elevated to a top-level project within The Apache Software Foundation. However, active development on the platform ended in September 2019.
Overview
Distributed under the Apache License 2.0, Apache Apex was originally created by DataTorrent, a startup based in San Jose.
The platform is composed of two main parts: Apex Core and Apex Malhar. Apex Core serves as the foundational framework for constructing distributed applications on Apache Hadoop. Apex Malhar provides an extensive collection of connectors and operators that simplify rapid application development by supporting various sources and sinks including Alluxio, S3, HDFS, NFS, FTP, Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, JMS, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, HBase, CouchDB, and generic JDBC interfaces.
History
Development of the platform began in 2012 by DataTorrent, which later contributed the core components as an open-source project named Apache Apex. The project entered the Apache Incubator in August 2015 and achieved top-level status within eight months. DataTorrent ceased its operations in May 2018.
Since September 2019, there has been no ongoing development for Apache Apex.
| Module | Version | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| Apex Core | 3.7.0 | 27 April 2018 |
| Apex Malhar | 3.8.0 | 11 November 2017 |
| Apex Core | 3.6.0 | 5 May 2017 |
| Apex Malhar | 3.7.0 | 31 March 2017 |
| Apex Core | 3.5.0 | 12 December 2016 |
| Apex Malhar | 3.6.0 | 9 December 2016 |
| Apex Malhar | 3.5.0 | 3 September 2016 |
| Apex Core and Malhar | 3.4.0 | 5 May 2016 |
Apex Big Data World
Apex Big Data World is a conference centered on Apache Apex technology, inaugurated in 2017. The event has been hosted in locations such as Pune, India, and Mountain View, California, catering to industry professionals and enterprises focused on big data analytics and stream processing solutions.