A physical view of a Storm cluster
The next figure explains the physical position of each process. There can be only one Nimbus. However, more than one Zookeeper is there to support failover, and per machine, there is one supervisor.
Stream grouping
A stream grouping controls the flow of tuples between from spout to bolt or bolt to bolt. In Storm, we have four types of groupings. Shuffle and field grouping are most commonly used:
- Shuffle grouping: Tuple flow between two random tasks in this grouping
- Field grouping: A tuple with a particular field key is always delivered to the same task of the downstream bolt
- All grouping: Sends the same tuple to all ...
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