Availability: Open Source
Written in : Clojure and Java
It is a system for processing streaming data in real time
Although technologies such as MapReduce and Hadoop had made it possible to store and process massive quantities of data, they were restricted to batch processing.
It provides fruitful benefits of real-time analytics, machine learning and continuous monitoring of operations.
It is extremely fast and is able to process over a million jobs in a fraction of a second on a node
Fast, Scalable, Reliable, fault- tolerant
Easy to operate
Can integrate with any programming language
Latency of Milliseconds