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 JEE 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

One of the best alternative is Quartz Scheduler, which is however, often used behind the scene of Spring Batch.

The Quartz Tutorials are really easy to understand and learn.