[eldenbishop]

Storm is a low level system for managing (optionally) transactional multi-machine tasks. It makes no assumptions about what is being processed (ie. analytics, data transforms). The primitives you are talking about exist in the child project Trident which runs on top of storm. Storm itself is no more for analytics than a web-server. It is a lower level tool.

[weego]

The parent also ignored the time-to-process difference which is drastically lower in storm. It has its flaws but scale is not the only metric to use as a decider