Apache Apex is a YARN-native platform that unifies stream and batch processing. It processes big data-in-motion in a way that is scalable, performant, fault-tolerant, stateful, secure, distributed, and easily operable.[3]
Apache Apex was named a top-level project by The Apache Software Foundation on April 25, 2016.[4][5] As of September 2019, it is no longer actively developed.[2]
Overview
editApache Apex is developed under the Apache License 2.0.[6] The project was driven by the San Jose, California-based start-up company DataTorrent.
There are two parts of Apache Apex: Apex Core and Apex Malhar. Apex Core is the platform or framework for building distributed applications on Hadoop. The core Apex platform is supplemented by Malhar, a library of connector and logic functions, enabling rapid application development. These input and output operators provide templates to sources and sinks such as Alluxio, S3, HDFS, NFS, FTP, Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, JMS, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, HBase, CouchDB, generic JDBC, and other database connectors.
History
editDataTorrent has developed the platform since 2012 and then decided to open source the core that became Apache Apex.[7] It entered incubation in August 2015 and became Apache Software Foundation top level project within 8 months. DataTorrent itself shut down in May 2018.[8]
As of September 2019, Apache Apex is no longer being developed.[2]
| 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
editApex Big Data World [9] is a conference about Apache Apex. The first conference of Apex Big Data World took place in 2017. They were held in Pune, India and Mountain View, California, USA.
References
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- ^ "Apache Apex Web Page".
- ^ "Spark rival Apache Apex hits top-level status". siliconangle.com. 26 April 2016.
- ^ "The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Apex as a Top-Level Project". The Apache Software Foundation. 25 April 2016.
- ^ "Apache Apex Github Repos". GitHub.
- ^ "Apache Apex Is Promoted To Top-Level Project". informationweek.com. 27 April 2016.
- ^ "DataTorrent, Stream Processing Startup, Folds". 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Apex Big Data World". Archived from the original on 2025-08-07. Retrieved 2025-08-07.