G2

Satheesh V.

Senior Solutions Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/6/2020

"Tryst With Kudu in Production Deployment for a Telco"

4/5

What do you like best about Apache Kudu?

1. Implementing Lambda Architecture (Both Batch & Real Time Streaming) with Kudu is quite straightforward. We additionally used Streamsets as the Ingestion Platform which has quite a good coupling with Kudu. 2. Makes Real Time Analytics Quite Straightforward. We used Kudu to run multiple Real Time Campaigns. 3. Tailor Made for Implementing Data Warehouses within a Big Data Environment. 4. Nice Upsert Functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kudu?

1. Partition Limitation - Is limited to 2000 tablets/tablet server. 2. Faces Random Timeouts while approaching the tablet number limitation (max 2000/server). 3. Needs a Conformed Schema. No automatic handling of drifting schemas. 4. Needs a Primary Key for every table. 5. #3 & #4 are not really cons per se. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Kudu:

Use it if the Datawarehouse is a strong use case within Big Data environments & try to be within the partition/tablet limitation and you should be good to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Real Time Campaigns. 2. Real Time Lookups & Transaction Enrichment. 3. Data Warehouse Implementation is quite straight forward with Apache Kudu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.