Complementary technologies, often used together. In fact, in Storm 0.9.x, Storm actually bundles a JVM implementation of a Storm Spout that plugs directly into

Complementary technologies, often used together. In fact, in Storm 0.9.x, Storm actually bundles a JVM implementation of a Storm Spout that plugs directly into Kafka: https://github.com/apache/storm/tree/master/external/storm-kafka https://github.com/apache/storm/tree/master/external/storm-k...