Databases and data infrastructure

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Apache Flink

Apache Flink is an open-source framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over data streams, which grew out of a research project begun in 2009 at TU Berlin.

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Apache Livy

Apache Livy is an open-source REST service for submitting Spark jobs and managing long-running Spark contexts, originally built by Cloudera, Microsoft, and Hortonworks; an Apache top-level project since May 2026, default port 8998, latest release 0.9.0-incubating.

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Apache Superset

Apache Superset is an open-source data exploration and visualization platform created at Airbnb in 2015, letting users build charts and interactive dashboards on SQL databases.

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CouchDB

CouchDB, formally Apache CouchDB, is an open-source document-oriented database storing schema-free JSON documents behind a RESTful HTTP API, written in Erlang and begun in 2005.

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IBM Db2

IBM Db2 is a family of relational database management systems developed by IBM, first announced in 1983 for mainframes and now serving transactional, analytical, and AI workloads on premises and in hybrid cloud.

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Ingres (database)

Ingres is a relational database management system that began at UC Berkeley in 1973, used the QUEL query language, and survives as the Actian Ingres commercial product.

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Kibana

Kibana, created by Rashid Khan in 2013, is Elastic's open source web interface for querying, visualizing, and managing Elasticsearch data; the UI of the Elastic Stack (formerly ELK), with Discover, Lens, dashboards, alerting, ML, triple licensing.