Sahara+Storm: Real-time Data Analytics in Openstack
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 2015-10-29

One of the most recent addition to Sahara (OpenStack Data-Processing-as-a-Service component) was the Storm plugin. Up to Juno, Openstack Sahara included only batch processing alternatives and Storm is one of the most popular open-source tools for real-time data analytics and stream processing.

Implementing real-time data processing differs from Hadoop and other batch processing approaches because the data cannot be stored and then processed. The processing takes place while the data traverses t