Apache Flink's documentation describes Flink in the following way: Flink is an open-source framework for distributed stream processing.
Flink provides accurate results and supports out-of-order or late-arriving datasets. It is stateful and fault-tolerant and can seamlessly recover from failures while maintaining an exactly-once application state. It performs at a large scale, running on thousands of nodes with very good throughput and latency characteristics.
The following are the features of Apache Flink:
- Flink guarantees exactly-once semantics for stateful computations
- Flink supports stream processing and windowing with event time semantics
- Flink supports flexible windowing based on time, count, or sessions, in addition to ...
