continuous processing

British

noun

the systems in a plant or factory for the manufacturing of products, treating of materials, etc, that have been designed to run continuously and are often computer-controlled Compare batch processing

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If a company is doing continuous processing of a stream of tweets or check-ins, advertising impressions, or point of sale purchases, all of which need to be done in real time, Hadoop isn’t the best solution, especially when there are alternatives like Kafka, an open source project coming out of LinkedIn, which handles distributed stream processing.

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