May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
596 pages
15h 2m
English
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What is Apache Flink?
Apache Flink is an open-source stream processing framework for distributed, high-performing, always-available, and accurate data streaming applications.
- flink.apache.org
Apache Flink is a community-driven open source framework for distributed big data analytics, like Hadoop and Spark. The core of Apache Flink is a distributed streaming dataflow engine written in Java and Scala. Flink executes arbitrary dataflow programs in a data-parallel and pipelined manner. Flink's pipelined runtime system enables the execution of bulk/batch and stream processing programs.
- Wikipedia
Apache’s definition of Flink is somewhat easy to understand and the second part of Wikipedia's definition is quite hard to understand. For the time ...