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 Heron alternative is Apache Spark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Heron are Apache Flink, Apache Storm and Gearpump.

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Heron

Free • Open Source

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

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Heron alternatives page was last updated Mar 9, 2021

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.
9 Apache Spark alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Cloud Computing Service
- Web Analytics Service
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Apache Spark Features
Parallel Computing
Data analytics
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Apache Spark VS Heron
Is Apache Spark a good alternative to Heron?
- Apache Spark is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux 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

Apache Flink
Flink’s core is a streaming dataflow engine that provides data distribution, communication, and fault tolerance for distributed computations over data streams.
15 Apache Flink alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Cloud Computing Service
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Apache Flink Features
Data analytics
Streaming
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Apache Flink VS Heron
Is Apache Flink a good alternative to Heron?

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.
5 Apache Storm alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Apache Storm Features
Distributed Computing
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Apache Storm VS Heron
Is Apache Storm a good alternative to Heron?

Gearpump
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.
4 Gearpump alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Discontinued
The Gearpump podling retired on 2018-09-19
Gearpump VS Heron
Is Gearpump a good alternative to Heron?