| Heron | |
| Heron | |
| Developer: | Backtype, Twitter |
| Discontinued: | No |
| Latest Release Version: | 0.20.1 |
| Latest Release Date: | [1] |
| Programming Language: | Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, Scala |
| Operating System: | Cross-platform |
| Genre: | Stream processing |
| License: | Apache License 2.0 |
Apache Heron is a distributed stream processing engine developed at Twitter. 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.[2] Heron is API compatible with Apache Storm.