Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of fun to use!

Promise level: Intriguing

home: http://storm-project.net/

Apache Storm

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Storm site at apache

Apache Storm Architecture

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This goes into the history of Storm by its author

Basic framework is in Clojure (JVM) based

Real time processing of events in parallel

Guaranteed

Thrift

Logic in any language abstraction

Zoo Keeper to keep state

Spark and Apache Storm

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Here is a long discussion on this

Apache storm and Apache Flink

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Here is some clarity to the soup of names

//Streaming based

Storm - Pure real time stream processing

Storm/Trident - with some batching capabilities added

//Samza

Real time even processing bolted on to Kafka

//Flink

Real time processing with batch capabilities

//Spark

In memory batch processing with real time processing enabled

Here is a good discussion on storm and flink