LightningBolt
LightningBolt is an open-source framework for real-time data processing and streaming. It provides a dataflow programming model in which applications are formed from a network of operators, including sources, transforms, aggregations, and sinks. The framework is designed to deliver low latency, high throughput, and fault tolerance across distributed deployments.
LightningBolt uses a distributed runtime that coordinates multiple worker processes to execute a directed acyclic graph
Key features include event-time processing, windowing, backpressure handling, dynamic scaling, and observability through built-in metrics and
LightningBolt originated from a research collaboration and was released to the community in the mid-2010s. Since
Typical use cases include real-time analytics, monitoring and alerting, fraud detection, and IoT data pipelines where
See also: real-time data processing, event-driven architectures, streaming frameworks.