What is Storm ?

Storm is a distributed computation framework written predominantly in the Clojureprogramming language.

The project was open sourced after being acquired by Twitter.

It uses custom created spouts and bolts to define "information sources and manipulations" to allow
batch, distributed processing of streaming data.

Apache Software Foundation has accepted Storm into its incubator program
Initial Release : 17-Sep-2011

Creator : Nathan Marz
Team : BackType

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What is Clojure programming language ?
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