Any unit of data defined for processing is a data element; for example, ACCOUNT NUMBER, NAME, ADDRESS and CITY. A data element is defined by size (in characters) and type (alphanumeric, numeric ...

In general, the data is processed as a stream and simultaneously branched off to storage for later batch processing. To give an example, consider an acoustic monitor attached to an industrial machine.

Every day, a significant amount of data related to weather, traffic, and social media undergo real-time processing. In traditional cloud computing, this processing occurs on the cloud, raising ...