What is Apache Beam?
Apache Beam is a powerful, open-source unified programming model that enables businesses to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream processing. This application provides a comprehensive solution for data integration, allowing users to move data between various storage media and sources. With Apache Beam, IT teams can design, share, and run pipelines on multiple execution environments, leveraging different SDKs, IO connectors, or transformation libraries
Highlights
- Supports batch and streaming data-parallel processing pipelines
- Enables ETL and pure data integration tasks
- Allows configuration of pipeline aspects, including runner-specific settings
- Provides performance metrics for monitoring errors, RPCs, and processed elements