Thanks to an impressive grab bag of improvements in version 2.0, Spark's quasi-streaming solution has become more powerful and easier to manage ...

What about Apache Spark? Well, as Gorman points out, Spark is capable of real-time processing, but isn’t optimally suited to it. The Spark streaming frameworks are still micro-batch by design.

Concord is gaining momentum as another real-time data processing framework worth considering. The stream processing field is getting crowded with an assortment of frameworks like Storm, Spark ...