What alternatives exist to Spring Batch to handle queued jobs?

Question

I have been looking in to Spring Batch to solve a batch processing scenario with huge amount of data involved in each job. Are there any other solutions that compete with Spring Batch? To be used in a Java EE environment.

Answer 1

Well the uber-king of big-data batch processing is Hadoop, but that can be rather tricky to set up, to put it mildly.

Answer 2

Batch support is now available in Java EE 7 via JSR 352: Batch applications for the Java platform.

See Batch Applications in Java EE 7 - Undertanding JSR 352 Concepts for some more info.

Answer 3

Akka is a nice solution too for precessing small tasks http://akka.io/

Answer 4

Try easyBatch. The simple stupid Batch framework. Try it once and use it forever. https://github.com/j-easy/easy-batch