Smart Distributed DataSets for Stream Processing.

There is an ever-increasing amount of devices getting connected to the internet, and so is the volume of data that needs to be processed - the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a good example of this. Stream processing was created for the sole purpose of dealing with high volumes of data, and it has proven itself time and time again as a successful approach. However, there is still a necessity to further improve scalability and performance on this type of system. This work presents SDD4Streaming, a solution aimed at solving these specific issues of stream processing engines. Although current engines already implement scalability solutions, time has shown those are not enough and that further improvements are needed. SDD4Streaming employs an extension of a system to improve resource usage, so that applications use the resources they need to process data in a timely manner, thus increasing performance and helping other applications that are running in parallel in the same system.