An Analysis of Stream Processing Languages

Stream processing languages and stream processing engines have become more popu-lar as they emerged from several modern data stream intensive applications such as sensor monitoring, stock markets and network moni-toring. This study discusses the characteris-tics and features of the stream processing technology to provide an in-depth high-level guidance and comparison for stream processing systems and its underlying lan-guages and technology with respect to the characteristics and features used by certain applications. The overall aim of this paper is to analyze and to identify the desired features of stream processing languages and to eva-luate a few representative stream processing systems and languages on the basis of those desired features. The analysis could help in the identification of a suitable stream processing technology for particular applica-tions as well as aiding the design and devel-opment of such languages for new, emerging applications.