Monday, April 7, 2014

Lambdoop: Lambda architecture to go

Lambdoop is a product made in Spain that tries to put the famous Lambda Architecture into place with minimal distortion. I haven't tried it, but I have to say that I love the name.

At the moment, their website is minimal too. But this presentation in NoSQLMatters Conference in Barcelona a few months ago shows the present and future of the product, which according to their words, is already in place at some (happy) customers'. 





The choice of technology stack for Lambda's layers has been Hadoop + HBase for the batch layer, and Spark + redis for the real time processing layer. It also provides Java abstraction and facilities to hybridize the processing.

The Lambdoop ecosystem also comprises a set of tools to make life easier for the developers (and non-developers, since there is a workflow designer tool too - where I'd ask why not to use or adapt Oozie).

It is still to be known whether the product will honor such a good name, and more specifically, position itself in the niche. It is still to be made clear that the community needs a product that ships a whole Lambda Architecture product instead of having the flex of arranging layers separately.
With plenty of solutions around Lambda Architecture out there and more to be, they better hurry.


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