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Apache Beam Reviews & Product Details

Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model designed to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream processing.

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Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model designed to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream processing.

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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/12/2023

"Batch and strEAM processing with Beam!"

5/5

What do you like best about Apache Beam?

Beam is awesome. Both Batch and Stream processing handled via the same semantics/code. Just switch out your IOs, ex: database or files for batch, or a message queue for streaming use cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Beam?

People sometimes have trouble learning. I wish it was easier for people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/18/2020

"Experience with Apache Beam ---> So far so Good."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Beam?

Liked the way Beam provides abstraction for the complex distributed paradigm using pCollection and Transforms etc.

Also its unified approach to deal with both Batch and Stream processing is unique and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Beam?

At the time of doing development , i found doing Join operation was not that simple and we had to use coGroupByKey for that which was a bit confusing for us. May be providing abstraction as simple join operation would help the users community. May be the developer community might have already provided that option but it was not there when we were doing our use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon C.

Human Resources Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/21/2020

"Excellent parallel processing experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Beam?

I have used Apache Beam to design my pipeline on Google cloud platform. My experience was seamless. I have designed for both batch and streaming data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Beam?

Lack of available courses on apache beam which can help newbies to learn Beam Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam:

I could easily recommend anyone to use Apache Beam for its simplicity and detailed documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used windowing technique to accommodate late dat within my pipeline which was a brilliant task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/25/2020

"Great choice for implementing complex and portable data pipelines."

5/5

What do you like best about Apache Beam?

In terms of capabilities and generality, I think Apache Beam is currently the most advanced and most flexible framework for designing and implementing modern data-intensive applications. Perfectly able to specify both batch and streaming computations, plus in terms of streaming capabilities, it offers really a lot! It takes some time to get comfortable with the APIs, but after that is goes pretty smoothly. Finally the support for various execution engine thanks to the "runner" abstraction makes it a great choice when portability across different platforms either on premise or in the Cloud becomes a factor. Definitely recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Beam?

Currently the APIs are not exactly super friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/16/2020

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"Easy to implement and plenty of example to follow"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Beam?

Frequently update and supports multiple language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Beam?

More tedious in debugging the application code. Also, not very informative error logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam:

Do more research before you get started to see if this is a suitable product for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating a pipeline for collecting data from IOT devices to analyse the insights provided by them. The data are health care data and navigation data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Praneet P.

Data Analyst (Deep Learning and Data Processing Engine)

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/30/2019

"Apache Beam Experience on Google Cloud Platform"

4/5

What do you like best about Apache Beam?

What I most like about Apache Beam is the ease of use when defining pipelines for ETL in both Batch and Streamline Processing. Being open-source software, Beam is one of the most powerful tools out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Beam?

It is a bit slower than Apache Flink as Beam is mainly classified in Graph Database tools while Flink is classified into Big Data Tools. Also, it doesn't provide any UI to monitor the job status while Flink does. Works pretty good for Small ETL Tasks in GCP rather than large tasks which involve a lot of streams processing. Flink is better if your use case has to deal with lot of streams at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam:

I would suggest to first go through the docs of Apache Beam, as there is good content in there along with the blogs on Apache Beam. Explore many other ETL tools like Apache Spark, Flink, Storm, Samza before considering Beam as each of them has their own use case benefits and decide which one fits you the most. I have mostly used Beam in Google Cloud Platform DataFlow for transforming and saving some changes from database using Change Data Capture into Apache Druid and found that Beam is pretty good for small tasks rather than for large ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've used Beam while writing some ETL for batch processing in Cloud DataFlow to transform the data in a timely manner and store them as features to some Time Series Database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhavala A.

Software Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/30/2019

"Data processing pipelines made easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Apache Beam?

With Apache beam, data processing pipelines are made really easy. We've been using this over the past 3 months and found it really successful especially for the ETL process of data we produce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Beam?

It is good for smaller processes, but not advisable for large streamline processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/30/2019

"Great Streaming Data Processing Workflow Engine"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Beam?

It's an open-source workflow engine that lets you code your logic of data processing workflow. It allows you to process your data based on batch and streams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Beam?

You should learn the basic function of your workflow using Java. So, it takes time (depends on your learning curve) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam:

it's a great streaming data processing workflow engine that you could customize your own logic to your workflow engine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you?

streaming data from Apache Kafka to BigQuery with implement several additional logic (customized from google dataflow) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/30/2019

"Big Data "

3.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Beam?

Apache beam have good feature "Pardo" and "dofn" which is help to write customized code and make powerful parallel operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Beam?

Apache beam have only Jdbc connectivity and after the write operation again you can not open new pcollection . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.