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Apache Flink
Stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams
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Scalability
very high
Performance
very high
Learning Curve
steep
Maturity
mature
Languages: Java, Scala, Python, SQL
Architecture: stream-processing, distributed
When to Use
- +Real-time requirements
- +Complex event processing
- +Low latency critical
When Not to Use
- -Batch-only workloads
- -Simple transformations
- -Small team
Strengths
- True streaming
- Exactly-once semantics
- Low latency
- Stateful processing
Weaknesses
- Complex operations
- Resource intensive
- Smaller community than Spark
Operations
Maintenance
high
Monitoring
high
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted, cloud, managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Data Transformation
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- free (free tier)
- Community
- large
- Docs Quality
- good
- Trend
- growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- none
- Data Portability
- moderate
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
mediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Real-time analytics
- Event-driven apps
- ETL
- CDC
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