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Re:Storm's first birthday by mattmcknight on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @11:38PM (#4546815)
Storm supports transactional topologies that can provide durability. They are dependent on a spout that is repeatable- where you can request the failed input again. https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Transactional-topol...
Re:Storm's first birthday by nathanmarz on Thursday September 20, 2012 @12:51AM (#4547011)
Actually transactional topologies are superseded by Trident, which is much easier to use:

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Trident-tutorial

Here's an explanation on how Trident achieves fully fault-tolerant, idempotent semantics:

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Trident-state