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Data Visualization

20 Best Free and Open Source Python Visualization Packages

December 29, 2025 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Scientific

Python has a fantastic range of packages to produce mesmerizing visualizations. We recommend the best free and open source Python tools.

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Natural Language Processing

17 Top Free and Open Source Python Natural Language Processing Tools

December 19, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup, Scientific

Natural language processing (NLP) is an exciting field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics.

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11 Best Free and Open Source File Systems for Big Data

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

This feature highlights the finest open source file systems designed to cope with the demands imposed by Big Data.

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Big Data

4 Best Free and Open Source Native XML Databases for Big Data

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.

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11 Best Free and Open Source Search Engines for Big Data

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup

Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.

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Big Data

8 Top Data Analysis Free and Open Source Tools for Big Data

June 30, 2024 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

Big Data analysis can be performed with data mining software. Here’s the best free tools to perform data analysis on big data.

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Big Data

Apache Flink – framework and distributed processing engine

June 29, 2024 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams.

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Big Data

Apache Spark – unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing

June 27, 2024 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.

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Big Data

14 Best Free and Open Source Key Value Stores for Big Data

June 14, 2024 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

This article recommends the best free and open source software key value stores for Big Data.

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Database

ScyllaDB – real-time big data database

June 9, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

ScyllaDB is a real-time big data database that is API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB.

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Natural Language Processing

16 Best Free and Open Source Natural Language Processing Tools

January 13, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Scientific

Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.

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Big Data

Apache Drill – schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Drill is an open source distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets. Drill is similar to Google’s Dremel.

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Big Data

HPCC Systems – massively scalable supercomputing platform

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

HPCC is a data-intensive computing system platform designed for the enterprise to solve Big Data challenges.

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Big Data

Storm – big-data processing system

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Storm is an open source, big-data processing system that is different from other systems. Storm is designed for distributed real-time processing.

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Big Data

Apache Hadoop – reliable, scalable, distributed computing

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

The Apache Hadoop software library is an open source framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters.

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Search

Apache Solr – enterprise search platform

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Solr is a popular, stand alone, fast, open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.

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Search

ElasticSearch – distributed RESTful search engine and analytics engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

ElasticSearch is a flexible and powerful open source, distributed RESTful search engine and analytics engine for the cloud.

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Search

MeiliSearch – fast, open-source, easy to use and deploy search engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

MeiliSearch is a RESTful search API. A ready-to-go solution for everyone who wants a fast and relevant search experience for their end-users.

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Search

Xapian – information retrieval library

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Xapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library. It is a full text search engine library for programmers.

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Search

Sphinx – software search engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

SQL Phrase Index (Sphinx) is an open source software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It is written in C++.

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