Apache Storm provides a distributed real-time computational capability for processing large amounts of data with high velocity. This is one of the reasons why it is being used primarily for real-time streaming data for rapid analytics. Storm is capable of processing over thousands of data records per second on a distributed cluster. Apache Storm runs on YARN framework and can connect with queues such as JMS and Kafka or to any type of database or it can listen to streaming APIs feeding information continuously, such as Twitter-streaming APIs and RSS feeds.
Apache Storm uses networks of spouts, bolts, and sinks called topology to address any kind of complex problems. Spouts represents a source where Storm is collecting information such as APIs, databases, or message queues. Bolts provide computation logic for an input stream and they produce...