Apache Wayang Makes Data Processing a Cross-Platform Job

Most data processing frameworks are built on a single execution engine. Not Apache Wayang.

Last week, The Apache Software Foundation debuted the Wayang data processing framework as a top-level Apache project.

Named after Indonesian puppet theater, Wayang is a data processing framework built for unifying sets of data with its ability to orchestrate multiple data processing frameworks.

For an organization with a lot of data systems, this software is a bit of a Swiss Army knife, able to execute different types of jobs depending on the needs at…