Open Source Big Data Tools

BIRT is an open source technology platform used to create data visualizations and reports that can be embedded into rich client and web applications. Developers who use BIRT Designer are able to access information from multiple data sources easily and quickly in order to create reports and applications with stunning data visualizations. Actuate now provides a free report server, BIRT iHub F-Type, to deploy BIRT content so developers don't have to build their own infrastructure. With a flexible Open Data Access framework, developers can write custom data drivers to access data from any source, including Big Data sources like Apache Hadoop, Cassandra, and MongoDB, along with all traditional relational databases, Flat Files, XML data streams, and data stored in proprietary systems. Built for embedding, BIRT includes APIs for data access, chart generation, output formats, content execution, and integration within larger applications.

Our goal is to create the world's fastest extendable, non-transactional time series database for big data (you know, for kids)! Log file indexing is our initial focus. For example append only ASCII files produced by libraries like Log4J, or containing FIX messages or JSON objects. Occursions was built by a small team sick of creating hacks to remotely copy and/or grep through tons of large log files. We use it to index around a terabyte of new log data per day. You can use it too. Who doesn't have `just too many' log files? Occursions asynchronously tails log files and indexes the individual lines in each log file as each line is written to disk so you don't even have to wait for a second after an event happens to search for it. Occursions uses custom disk backed data structures to create and search its indexes so it is very efficient at using CPU, memory and disk. You can extend Occursions with shared libraries to support your own file formats, even binary file formats!

Streamd for IBM i is a suite of tools for IBM i (previously known as AS/400 and iSeries) that can significantly improve performance characteristics of batch processes. Due to extensive use of parallel programming techniques Streams for IBM i delivers significant performance improvements for single streamed batch jobs. Streams for IBM i can split an existing batch process into a number of concurrent streams, completely eliminate backup-related delays, introduce new robust recovery policies and even modify the program logic of existing applications - all without any code modifications. Streams for IBM i includes a feature allowing manipulations of batch job QTEMP libraries.