Plexust

Plexust is a fictional open-source platform described as a framework for building and running modular data processing pipelines. It is designed to handle both real-time streaming and batch workloads within a single, extensible environment. The platform emphasizes portability across cloud, on-premises, and edge deployments, and interoperability with common data formats and protocols.

Origins and development: In hypothetical discussions, Plexust emerged in the mid-2020s as an attempt to unify data ingestion, processing, and visualization through a pluggable architecture and a declarative pipeline language.

Architecture: A core runtime provides scheduling, dependency resolution, and fault tolerance. It uses plug-in adapters to connect to data sources such as APIs, message queues, and databases, and to data sinks such as data lakes and dashboards. A declarative language named PlexScript describes pipelines, while the runtime handles execution and state management.

Key features: The platform supports horizontal scalability, checkpoint-based fault tolerance, multi-language SDKs, observability with metrics and traces, access control, and security features. It supports both streaming and batch processing, with backpressure handling and windowing operators.

Use and adoption: Plexust is described as suitable for data engineering, Internet of Things telemetry, and analytics workloads. In this fictional account, it has a growing community and documentation, but no official governance body.

See also: Data pipeline, Stream processing, Open-source software.