--- title: Apache Storm Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Storm Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 12 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Storm works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.7 review\_count: 12 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Big Data url: https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data --- # Apache Storm Reviews & Product Details Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Storm Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-storm/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 10 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-storm/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Google Cloud Dataflow](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud Dataflow") Google Cloud Dataflow 4.2/5(45) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-dataflow/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud BigQuery](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud BigQuery") Google Cloud BigQuery 4.5/5(1,224) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) [ ![Microsoft SQL Server](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Microsoft SQL Server") Microsoft SQL Server 4.4/5(2,287) ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-storm/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 12 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) YB YOGESH B. Mr Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/31/2020 "Data Processing Engine" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Storm? It is one of the early processing engines exists for data processing. It provides lot of capability to add layers in terms of bolts, each of these bolts can get executed in different worker process gives the capability of distribution of the tasks. Now storm is integrated with Machine learning frameworks makes it competent with any other streaming solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Storm? Its performance I feel is its show stopper, initially we used storm, as its nature is to distribute the single tasks across nodes eventhough we dont want it tohappen leads to log of performance impact. thread tuning is itself a one lot job to do, deciding how many threads you need for bolts, sink and source consumes lot of time. Very poor design with respect to back pressure handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Storm: Storm has its own use case, we need to match our use case if it macthes otherwise leads to lot of tome being spent to correct something which we dont expect that these problems can happen, for example performance optimization, thread tuning etc. In older versions it is the single point of failure, later they imporove nimbus to be more resilinet. I recomend with caution of words because i have negative opinion on storm so use it wise only if it fits your usecase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Storm solving and how is that benefiting you? data streaming, enriching and storing it in elasticsearch we also used it as logic layer to do some computations we streaming cloud watch metrics from aws also and enriched using storm processors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Market Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Market Research") GM Verified User in Market Research Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/30/2019 "Its free!" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Storm? Open source real time computation system. It can be used with any programming language. Great for tons of data. Oh and Its free! Can't get much better than that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Storm? The streams of data are very hard to understand. I needed a lot of help from the IT department. The training were difficult to understand. Its a difficult program to work with. Not very user friendly. You really have to focus on what you are doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Storm solving and how is that benefiting you? IT computes the data and helps figure out what we need to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/6/2019 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Machinery](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Machinery") GM Verified User in Machinery Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/28/2019 "Inbound processing " 3/5 What do you like best about Apache Storm? ease of use, Also love the fact that it seems like there were plenty of options for customization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Storm? Support isn't the best and some minimal integration issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Storm: Patience! Learning new programs like this can be daunting and overwhelming and i could see how some people would be pretty overwhelmed if they didn't pace themselves! There is a lot to learn with software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Storm solving and how is that benefiting you? We were looking for something for our inbound data processing, this seemed to fix the problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Alternative Medicine](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Alternative Medicine") GA Verified User in Alternative Medicine Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/31/2019 "Worth a Shot" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Storm? Primarily, that it’s free. If you have the time to learn how to utilize it, you have a handy to analyze data from several different campaigns/concepts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Storm? That it’s time consuming to learn. Best suited for a marketing professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Storm solving and how is that benefiting you? Not actively using. It’s beneficial for organizing marketing data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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