Version 1.0 is a major milestone in the evolution of Apache Storm, writes Apache Software Foundation VP for Apache Storm P. Taylor Goetz, and it includes many new features and improvements. In particular, Goetz claims a 3x–16x boost in performance.
Storm is an event processor that enables distributed processing of streaming data. A Storm application is made of “spouts” and “bolts” configured in a direct acyclic graph to represent information sources and data handlers. The main trait of Storm is its ability to process real time data, as opposed to batch processing as allowed, e.g., by Hadoop.
