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Followers126

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Heron vs KSQL: What are the differences?

What is Heron? Realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter. Heron is realtime analytics platform developed by Twitter. It is the direct successor of Apache Storm, built to be backwards compatible with Storm's topology API but with a wide array of architectural improvements.

What is KSQL? Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka. KSQL is an open source streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. It provides a simple and completely interactive SQL interface for stream processing on Kafka; no need to write code in a programming language such as Java or Python. KSQL is open-source (Apache 2.0 licensed), distributed, scalable, reliable, and real-time.

Heron and KSQL can be primarily classified as "Stream Processing" tools.

Heron and KSQL are both open source tools. It seems that Heron with 3.38K GitHub stars and 600 forks on GitHub has more adoption than KSQL with 2.33K GitHub stars and 478 GitHub forks.

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Support most popular container environment
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Highly Customizable
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Operation friendly
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Realtime Stream Processing

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Streamprocessing on Kafka
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SQL syntax with windowing functions over streams
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Easy transistion for SQL Devs

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What is Heron?

Heron is realtime analytics platform developed by Twitter. It is the direct successor of Apache Storm, built to be backwards compatible with Storm's topology API but with a wide array of architectural improvements.

What is KSQL?

KSQL is an open source streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. It provides a simple and completely interactive SQL interface for stream processing on Kafka; no need to write code in a programming language such as Java or Python. KSQL is open-source (Apache 2.0 licensed), distributed, scalable, reliable, and real-time.

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What are some alternatives to Heron and KSQL?

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MySQL

The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.

MongoDB

MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.

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