Jet

Data

stream processing

SHOW HN2020

129points
55comments
#486of 3,028 in 2020
Top 17%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

0 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.

Privacy: 0 for, 3 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Built-in fault tolerance without external coordination systems

    From 1 comment
    • While Flink is a fully-featured stream processing framework I think there's some notable differences. Off the top of my mind: - Flink uses Zookeeper for metadata and…
      cangencer on HN
  • Lightweight cooperative threading allows many concurrent jobs

    From 2 comments
    • While Flink is a fully-featured stream processing framework I think there's some notable differences. Off the top of my mind: - Flink uses Zookeeper for metadata and…
      cangencer on HN
    • This is indeed a question that we get asked a lot. We have so far not though about adding more advanced scheduling capabilities for the cooperative threads. With the slot system,…
      cangencer on HN

Objections

  • Commenter had bad experience with Hazelcast consistency bugs

    From 1 comment
    • Jet looks really cool, I'll but I think we'll stick with Flink for the time being. I say this as someone who got burned hard with weird bugs using Hazelcast 2.X as distributed…
      davewritescode on HN
  • Tracking GPS locations of users raises privacy concerns

    From 2 comments
    • >High-throughput, large-state stream processing. For example, tracking GPS locations of millions of users, inferring their velocity vectors. It baffles me they're so casual about…
      jmnicolas on HN
    • Which is still a disgusting and unethical use of technology.
      kgraves on HN

Requests

  • Python API

    From 1 comment
    • This has ways to handle all the problems i currently manually implement. Any idea of getting a python api ?
      grillorafael on HN

Questions

  • How does it compare to Kafka Streams and Apache Beam

    From 2 comments
    • I am new to this space. So Sorry if this is not a valid comparison. But how does this compare to Kafka?
      victor106 on HN
    • How does this compare to Apache beam?
      forgotmyhnacc on HN
  • What does SQL support look like

    From 1 comment
    • I’m not really sure how to imagine SQL support for something like this. Can you point me anywhere that will give me a better idea?
      Aeolun on HN

Alternatives named

  • Apache Flink

    From 2 comments
    • Why not use Apache Flink?
      KptMarchewa on HN
    • Jet looks really cool, I'll but I think we'll stick with Flink for the time being. I say this as someone who got burned hard with weird bugs using Hazelcast 2.X as distributed…
      davewritescode on HN
  • Apache Beam

    From 1 comment
  • Kafka Streams

    From 1 comment
    • compares to kafka streams which is built on top of kafka.
      dominotw on HN
  • Spark and Storm

    From 1 comment
    • spark, storm, flink, beam, hazelcast... and then there are all the vendor locked choices confluent, kinesis, azure probably has something in that space to The whole cloud…
      loremipsium on HN

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