Hi, I want to implement Storm for real time message processing in my project. I have observed that many people use 'Apache Kafka' along with 'Storm'.
In my project client applications will send messages to server side and server side is supposed to authenticate messages, process them and store into HBase. Only constraint is that message should not get dropped, each and every message must be persisted into HBase, it is fine if it takes few minutes to process that message. I would like to know 1) Is it mandatory to use Kafka with Storm? 2) What are the advantages of using Kafka with Storm? 3) What will happen if I don't use Kafka with storm? Request you to please enlighten me on usage of Kafka. Regards, Chandrash3khar Kotekar Mobile - +91 8600011455
