Data Lake for Enterprises

Advantages of Flink

Apache Flink was chosen for its inherent strengths and new designs. It was also chosen, considering use case that we are dealing with and also how the big data space is going forward. It is also considering how enterprises see data at real-time as a mechanism to make more profit. Dealing with real-time data with less latency as against dealing with micro-batch inherently providing results with some latency is needed in modern industries and Flink does live up to this aspect quite well.

Some of the core advantages offered by Flink are as follows:

• Capable of working with filesystems apart from Hadoop File Systems.
• Easy API’s.
• Open source.
• Better testing capability and support.
• Extremely fast data processing.
• Unified programming ...