Stream Processing

Stream processing and analytics is gaining momentum as businesses gear up for real-time processing of streaming data – typically from devices and sensors, but also other sources such as financial data and news. Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to…

Hadoop has primarily been used to support batch processing – the batch execution of tasks against very large amounts of data. As big data continues to evolve so the need to handle real-time streaming data has been embraced. Three candidates stand out at the current time: InfoSphere Streams is part…