Storm

Apache Storm is a scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed, real-time computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process streams of data. Storm has many use cases: real-time analytics, online machine learning, continuous computation, ETL, and others. Storm can process over 1 million tuples per second per node. The following are the key features of Storm:

  • Real-time computation
  • Guarantees data will be processed
  • Scalable
  • Fault tolerant

    Note

    At the time this book was authored, Storm is a preview feature in Azure HDInsight.

Storm positioning in Data Lake

Hadoop and MapReduce provide a great batch processing capability. HBase provides the low latency store. Storm provides low latency transformation so that real-time processing can be performed on ...

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