Overview

Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams. Flink has been designed to run in all common cluster environments, perform computations at in-memory speed and at any scale.

Key Features

  • Event-time processing: Handling data based on when it occurred.
  • Exactly-once semantics: Ensuring data is processed exactly once.
  • High throughput and low latency.

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