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  5. Mercurial vs Storm

Mercurial vs Storm

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Overview

Mercurial
Mercurial
Stacks229
Followers219
Votes105
Apache Storm
Apache Storm
Stacks208
Followers282
Votes25
GitHub Stars6.7K
Forks4.1K

Mercurial vs Storm: What are the differences?

What is Mercurial? A distributed version control system. Mercurial is dedicated to speed and efficiency with a sane user interface. It is written in Python. Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds.

What is Storm? Distributed and fault-tolerant realtime computation. 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. Storm has many use cases: realtime analytics, online machine learning, continuous computation, distributed RPC, ETL, and more. Storm is fast: a benchmark clocked it at over a million tuples processed per second per node. It is scalable, fault-tolerant, guarantees your data will be processed, and is easy to set up and operate.

Mercurial can be classified as a tool in the "Version Control System" category, while Storm is grouped under "Stream Processing".

"Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools" is the primary reason why developers consider Mercurial over the competitors, whereas "Flexible" was stated as the key factor in picking Storm.

Storm is an open source tool with 5.79K GitHub stars and 3.92K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Storm's open source repository on GitHub.

Deveo, Performance Assessment Network (PAN), and Eyereturn Marketing are some of the popular companies that use Mercurial, whereas Storm is used by Spotify, Twitter, and Yelp. Mercurial has a broader approval, being mentioned in 45 company stacks & 131 developers stacks; compared to Storm, which is listed in 49 company stacks and 60 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Mercurial
Mercurial
Apache Storm
Apache Storm

Mercurial is dedicated to speed and efficiency with a sane user interface. It is written in Python. Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds.

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. Storm has many use cases: realtime analytics, online machine learning, continuous computation, distributed RPC, ETL, and more. Storm is fast: a benchmark clocked it at over a million tuples processed per second per node. It is scalable, fault-tolerant, guarantees your data will be processed, and is easy to set up and operate.

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Storm integrates with the queueing and database technologies you already use;Simple API;Scalable;Fault tolerant;Guarantees data processing;Use with any language;Easy to deploy and operate;Free and open source
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
6.7K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
4.1K
Stacks
229
Stacks
208
Followers
219
Followers
282
Votes
105
Votes
25
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 18
    A lot easier to extend than git
  • 17
    Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools
  • 13
    Works on windows natively without cygwin nonsense
  • 11
    Written in python
  • 9
    Free
Cons
  • 0
    Track single upstream only
  • 0
    Does not distinguish between local and remote head
Pros
  • 10
    Flexible
  • 6
    Easy setup
  • 4
    Event Processing
  • 3
    Clojure
  • 2
    Real Time
Integrations
Windows
Windows
Fedora
Fedora
FreeBSD
FreeBSD
Debian
Debian
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux
Mac OS X
Mac OS X
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Mercurial, Apache Storm?

Git

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Apache NiFi

Apache NiFi

An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic.

SVN (Subversion)

SVN (Subversion)

Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.

Plastic SCM

Plastic SCM

Plastic SCM is a distributed version control designed for big projects. It excels on branching and merging, graphical user interfaces, and can also deal with large files and even file-locking (great for game devs). It includes "semantic" features like refactor detection to ease diffing complex refactors.

Confluent

Confluent

It is a data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka: a full-scale streaming platform, capable of not only publish-and-subscribe, but also the storage and processing of data within the stream

Pijul

Pijul

Pijul is a free and open source (AGPL 3) distributed version control system. Its distinctive feature is to be based on a sound theory of patches, which makes it easy to learn and use, and really distributed.

KSQL

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.

Heron

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.

DVC

DVC

It is an open-source Version Control System for data science and machine learning projects. It is designed to handle large files, data sets, machine learning models, and metrics as well as code.

Magit

Magit

It is an interface to the version control system Git, implemented as an Emacs package. It aspires to be a complete Git porcelain. While we cannot (yet) claim that it wraps and improves upon each and every Git command, it is complete enough to allow even experienced Git users to perform almost all of their daily version control tasks directly from within Emacs. While many fine Git clients exist, only deserve to be called porcelains.

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