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Gearpump is a real-time big data streaming engine. It is inspired by recent advances in the Akka framework and a desire to improve on existing streaming frameworks. Gearpump is event/message based and featured as low latency handling, high performance, exactly once semantics, dynamic topology update, Apache Storm compatibility, etc.
The name Gearpump is a reference to the engineering term “gear pump,” which is a super simple pump that consists of only two gears, but is very powerful at streaming water.
Gearpump is a modern big data real-time streaming engine which has many unique features:
Per initial benchmarks we are able to process 18 million messages/second (100 bytes per message) with a 8ms latency on a 4-node cluster.
Gearpump is a 100% Akka based platform. We model big data streaming within the Akka actor hierarchy. Gearpump