Presenter: Devendra Tagare - DataTorrent Engineer, Contributor to Apex, Data Architect experienced in building high scalability big data platforms. Apache Apex is a next generation native Hadoop big data platform. This talk will cover details about how it can be used as a powerful and versatile platform for big data. Apache Apex is a native Hadoop data-in-motion platform. We will discuss architectural differences between Apache Apex features with Spark Streaming. We will discuss how these differences effect use cases like ingestion, fast real-time analytics, data movement, ETL, fast batch, very low latency SLA, high throughput and large scale ingestion. We will cover fault tolerance, low latency, connectors to sources/destinations, smart partitioning, processing guarantees, computation and scheduling model, state management and dynamic changes. We will also discuss how these features affect time to market and total cost of ownership.