What alternatives exist to Spring Batch to handle queued jobs?

Batch support is now available in Java EE 7 via JSR 352: Batch applications for the Java platform.

See Batch Applications in Java EE 7 - Undertanding JSR 352 Concepts for some more info.

Well the uber-king of big-data batch processing is Hadoop, but that can be rather tricky to set up, to put it mildly.