chrislusf/glow
Glow is an easy-to-use distributed computation system written in Go, similar to Hadoop Map Reduce, Spark, Flink, Storm, etc. I am also working on another similar pure Go system, https://github.com/chrislusf/gleam , which is more flexible and more performant. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
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Adoption not part of the score
3218 stars · 248 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Glow is a pure-Go distributed computation library providing MapReduce-style flow APIs (Map, Filter, Reduce) that can run in parallel on a single machine or across a cluster of agents coordinated by a master. It is the predecessor to the author's more performant Gleam system.
Use cases
- run mapreduce jobs in go
- parallelize data processing across cpu cores
- build a lightweight distributed compute cluster without hadoop
- process large text files in parallel
- run data pipelines across multiple machines
- word count style batch processing in go
When to choose
- you want a simple, single-binary MapReduce system in pure Go without Zookeeper/HDFS/YARN dependencies
- you need easy parallelism on one machine using goroutines
- you prefer a lightweight flow API over Spark's JVM stack
When to avoid
- you need a mature, actively developed big-data framework - the author recommends Gleam instead
- you need the Spark/Flink ecosystem features like SQL, streaming windows, or rich connectors
- you require long-term support - the last release was in 2018
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
etl streaming concurrency data-science microservices big-data developer-tools go windows cross-platform map-reduce dataflow dag cluster-computing parallel-processing spark-alternative data-engineering linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/chrislusf/glow · fetched 2026-08-28 · dfa97658c0bd
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
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| chrislusf/glow | main | 32 |
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