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Apache Beam
A unified model for defining both batch and streaming data-parallel processing pipelines. Provides a general approach to expressing embarrassingly parallel data processing pipelines and supports end users, SDK writers, and runner writers.
| First released | June 15, 2016 |
| Developed by | Apache Software Foundation |
| Open-source | Yes |
Interesting facts
The Beam pipeline is executed by one of the distributed processing back-ends, which include Apache Apex, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow.
