Heron Alternatives

Heron is described as 'Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter' and is an app in the development category. There are four alternatives to Heron for Linux, Mac, Windows and BSD. The best alternative is Apache Flink, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Heron are Apache Spark, Apache Storm and Gearpump.

Heron alternatives are mainly Cloud Computing Services but may also be Web Analytics Services. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Heron.

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Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter.

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Apache Flink
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13 alternatives to Apache Flink
Flink’s core is a streaming dataflow engine that provides data distribution, communication, and fault tolerance for distributed computations over data streams.
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Apache Spark
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8 alternatives to Apache Spark
Apache Spark™ is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. Speed Run programs up to 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce in memory, or 10x faster on disk.

Spark has an advanced DAG execution engine that supports cyclic data flow and in-memory computing.
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Apache Storm
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5 alternatives to Apache Storm
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.
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Gearpump
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Apache Gearpump is a real-time big data streaming engine. The name Gearpump is a reference to the engineering term “gear pump” which is a super simple pump that consists of only two gears, but is very powerful at streaming water.

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The Gearpump podling retired on 2018-09-19
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