Apache Storm

Apache Storm is a distributed real-time computation system designed for processing unbounded streams of data. Originally created at BackType and later acquired by Twitter, Storm provides guaranteed message processing with low latency.

Overview

Storm excels at:

• Real-time stream processing
• Guaranteed message processing
• Horizontal scalability
• Fault tolerance
• Language agnostic topology definition

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