As with most tools it's depending on what you want to do with it. Storm is meant to handle streaming data. It's wonderful for low latency big data applications.

As with most tools it's depending on what you want to do with it. Storm is meant to handle streaming data. It's wonderful for low latency big data applications. You can check out the benchmarks for it at Yahoo Developer Tumblr https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/135321837876/benchmarking-streaming-computation-engines-at https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/135321837876/benchmarking-s...