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Abstract

Data stream processors have gained significant attention from the industry in recent years due to the increasing trend of data stream processing applications. This article compares the features of Apache Storm with WSO2 Stream Processor which are two open source data stream processors. The comparison includes more than 20 different important features of modern stream processors. The article identifies the strong points of WSO2 Stream Processor and Apache Storm in terms of their different application scenarios.

1. Introduction

Data stream processing has become the main paradigm of data analytics in recent years due to the growing requirement of stream processing applications. Multiple applications of stream processing can be found in areas such as telecommunications, financial trading [7], cybersecurity [6], advertising, retail, manufacturing, energy, transportation [4],[5], etc [3].

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