Apache Storm Insights

What is Apache Storm?

Apache Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, real-time computation system. It is often used for processing unbounded streams of data, such as social media feeds, sensor data, and financial transactions. Storm excels at tasks like real-time analytics, online machine learning, continuous computation, distributed RPC, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), and more.

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What other technologies are related to Apache Storm?

Apache Storm Competitor Technologies

Spark Streaming

Spark Streaming provides a similar real-time data processing capability to Apache Storm, making them direct competitors in the stream processing space.

mentioned alongside Apache Storm in 21% (2.6k) of relevant job posts

Flink

Flink is another stream processing framework that competes with Storm in the real-time data processing domain.

mentioned alongside Apache Storm in 8% (2.7k) of relevant job posts

Spark

While Spark is primarily a batch processing engine, its micro-batching capabilities can be used for near real-time processing, positioning it as a competitor to Storm, particularly for less stringent latency requirements.

mentioned alongside Apache Storm in 2% (7.2k) of relevant job posts

Apache Samza

Samza is a stream processing framework, making it a competitor to Storm for real-time data processing.

mentioned alongside Apache Storm in 27% (140) of relevant job posts

Apache Storm Complementary Technologies

Kafka

Kafka is a distributed streaming platform often used as a source for data ingested by Storm for real-time processing, acting as a message queue and data buffer.

mentioned alongside Apache Storm in 2% (7.2k) of relevant job posts

Cassandra

Cassandra is a NoSQL database that can be used as a sink for Storm to store processed data or as a source for enriching streaming data.

mentioned alongside Apache Storm in 3% (3k) of relevant job posts

HBase

HBase is a NoSQL database that can be used as a sink for Storm to store processed data or as a source for enriching streaming data.

mentioned alongside Apache Storm in 6% (1.6k) of relevant job posts