Spark Streaming is not the first streaming architecture to come into existence. Several technologies have existenced over time to deal with the real-time processing needs of various business use cases. Twitter Storm was one of the first popular stream processing technologies out there and was in used by many organizations fulfilling the needs of many businesses.
Apache Spark comes with a streaming library, which has rapidly evolved to be the most widely used technology. Spark Streaming has some distinct advantages over the other technologies, the first and foremost being the tight integration between Spark Streaming APIs and the Spark core APIs making building a dual purpose real-time and batch analytical platform feasible and efficient than otherwise. Spark Streaming also integrates with Spark ML and Spark SQL, as well as GraphX, making it the most powerful stream...
