Heron AlternativesBig-Data Analytics Tools Tools and other similar apps like Heron

Heron is described as 'Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter' and is a big-data analytics tools tool in the development category. There are five alternatives to Heron for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Heron alternative is Apache Spark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Heron are ILUM, Gigasheet, Apache Flink and Apache Storm.

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  1. Apache Spark icon

    Apache Spark

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    Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Python
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    • Apache Spark is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Heron.

    • Apache Spark is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Heron.

    • Apache Spark is Free and Open SourceHeron is also Free and Open Source
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    ILUM

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    Ilum is a free data lakehouse platform designed for scalability, flexibility, and simplicity.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Kubernetes
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    • ILUM is the most popular SaaS alternative to Heron.

    • ILUM is Freemium and ProprietaryHeron is Free and Open Source
    • ILUM is Lightweight and Privacy focusedHeron is not according to our users
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    Gigasheet

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    The big data spreadsheet that requires no coding skills.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     

    • Gigasheet is the most popular Web-based alternative to Heron.

    • Gigasheet is Freemium and ProprietaryHeron is Free and Open Source
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    Apache Flink

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    Flink’s core is a streaming dataflow engine that provides data distribution, communication, and fault tolerance for distributed computations over data streams.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • Apache Flink is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Heron.

    • Apache Flink is Free and Open SourceHeron is also Free and Open Source
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    Apache Storm

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    Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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