Apache Flink performs stateful computations on data streams for stream processing applications.

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About Flink

Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams. It runs in common cluster environments at in-memory speed and at scale. It supports event-driven applications, stream and batch analytics, and data pipelines and ETL, with correctness, API, operational and performance capabilities described below.

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Key features

  • Exactly-once state consistency
  • Event-time processing with late data handling
  • SQL on stream and batch data
  • DataStream API and ProcessFunction for time and state
  • Flexible deployment with high-availability setup
  • Savepoints and incremental checkpoints for very large state
  • Low-latency, high-throughput in-memory computing

Flink at a glance

Type
App
Pricing
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Platforms
Web
Details verified
Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
Open source
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Language
English
Last checked
Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
Listed
Oct 5, 2026

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