Read the wiki: "Guarantees no data loss: A realtime system must have strong guarantees about data being successfully processed. A system that drops data has a

Read the wiki: "Guarantees no data loss: A realtime system must have strong guarantees about data being successfully processed. A system that drops data has a very limited set of use cases. Storm guarantees that every message will be processed, and this is in direct contrast with other systems like S4." https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Rationale https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Rationale