A distributed method and apparatus for processing streaming data are disclosed. A specific implementation of the method includes: encapsulating received streaming data as a first resilient distributed dataset; performing a grouping operation on the first resilient distributed dataset based on time windows, the grouping operation comprising: assigning each data element in the first resilient distributed dataset into a group corresponding to a time window to which a recorded timestamp of the data element belongs, and forming second resilient distributed datasets comprising a limited number of data elements and respectively corresponding to the time windows; encapsulating the second resilient distributed datasets as a nested dataset comprising a plurality of the second resilient distributed datasets; passing, using a predefined traversal operator, each of the second resilient distributed datasets in the nested dataset successively to a batch operator defined in a finite dataset to perform distributed data processing.