title: Apache Flink vs Twitter Heron?
body: <p>There are a lot of questions comparing Flink vs Spark Streaming, Flink vs Storm and Storm vs Heron.</p>
  
  <p>The origin of this question is from the fact that both Apache Flink and Twitter Heron are true stream processing frameworks (not micro-batch, like Spark Streaming). Storm has been decommissioned by Twitter last year and they're using Heron instead (which is basically Storm reworked).</p>
  
  <p>There are nice presentations by Slim Baltagi on Flink and Flink vs Spark:
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G77m6Ou_kFA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G77m6Ou_kFA</a> </p>
  
  <p>Nice research by Ilya Ganelin on various streaming frameworks:
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkjhyBLupvs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkjhyBLupvs</a> </p>
  
  <p>Pretty interesting thoughts on Flink vs Storm:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30699119/what-is-are-the-main-differences-between-flink-and-storm?rq=1">What is/are the main difference(s) between Flink and Storm?</a></p>
  
  <p>But I haven't seen any comparison of new Storm/Heron vs Apache Flink.</p>
  
  <p>Both of the projects are pretty young, both support using previously written Storm applications and many other things. Flink is more fitting into Hadoop ecosystem, Heron is more into Twitter based ecosystem stack.</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts?</p>