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Real-time processing

The following points describe how real-time processing is different from batch processing:

Latency is extremely important, for example, less than one second
Computation is relatively simple
Data is processed as an independent unit
Available tools include Apache Storm, Spark Streaming, Apache Fink, Apache Kafka, and so on

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