Big Data Simplified

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Let us now consider the competition. The primary competition here is Storm. However, by most

standards, Spark overtakes Storm. Spark records a higher throughput by upwards of 40times.

Also, it is only through an add-on to Storm called Trident, where it guarantees exactly-one seman-

tics, which ends up slowing Storm down quite a bit.

But it is important to note that Spark streaming differs from Storm in its implementation.

Storm is a true streaming framework processing each item one by one as it arrives, whereas Spark

processes the incoming data as a series of small, deterministic batch jobs through the underlying

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