Wrote this awhile back on streaming and dataflow: http://www.jonathanbeard.io/blog/2015/09/19/streaming-and-dataflow.html http://www.jonathanbeard.io/blog/2015/

Wrote this awhile back on streaming and dataflow: http://www.jonathanbeard.io/blog/2015/09/19/streaming-and-dataflow.html http://www.jonathanbeard.io/blog/2015/09/19/streaming-and-da... There are literally hundreds of data-flow streaming implementations. Quite sad that Google has named their system "Dataflow" which literally search bombs any other dataflow like system out there. Many of these systems are more data-flow in semantics only but more transaction-like under the hood. Quite nice for simple check-pointing/fault tolerance but not so great for performance. There's also some interesting work form Dongarra's lab on data-flow task sets (very OmpSs like). The earliest system was by Jack Dennis. Either way, I hope my blog post helps answer your questions.