| Developer(s) | Backtype, Twitter |
|---|---|
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Java and Scala |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
Heron is a distributed streaming 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.