Apache Heron is a distributed
stream processing
In computer science, stream processing (also known as event stream processing, data stream processing, or distributed stream processing) is a programming paradigm which views data streams, or sequences of events in time, as the central input and o ...
engine developed at
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...
. According to the creators at Twitter, the scale and diversity of Twitter data has increased, and Heron is a real-time analytics platform to process streaming. It was introduced at the SIGMOD 2015.
Heron is API compatible with
Apache Storm
Apache Storm is a distributed stream processing computation framework written predominantly in the Clojure programming language. Originally created by Nathan Marz and team at BackType, the project was open sourced after being acquired by Twitter. ...
.
See also
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List of Apache Software Foundation projects This list of Apache Software Foundation projects contains the software development projects of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
Besides the projects, there are a few other distinct areas of Apache:
* Incubator: for aspiring ASF projects
*Att ...
References
External links
Official Apache Heron page
Distributed stream processing
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