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Flink

Last updated May 14, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Flink?

Apache Flink is a distributed, open-source stream processing framework for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams. It is commonly used for real-time data analytics, ETL pipelines, stream processing applications, and event-driven applications.

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What other technologies are related to Flink?

Flink Competitor Technologies

Spark is a general-purpose distributed processing engine that can be used for batch and stream processing, similar to Flink.

mentioned alongside Flink in 7% (23.2k) of relevant job posts

Storm is another stream processing engine that competes with Flink for real-time data processing tasks.

mentioned alongside Flink in 26% (2.7k) of relevant job posts

Spark Streaming

Spark Streaming is Spark's module for streaming data processing, and hence a competitor to Flink.

mentioned alongside Flink in 23% (2.8k) of relevant job posts

Kafka Streams is a stream processing library built on top of Kafka, offering an alternative to Flink for stream processing within the Kafka ecosystem.

mentioned alongside Flink in 20% (1.3k) of relevant job posts

Samza is a stream processing framework, making it a competitor to Flink.

mentioned alongside Flink in 53% (277) of relevant job posts

Flink Complementary Technologies

Kafka is a distributed streaming platform often used as a source and sink for Flink applications.

mentioned alongside Flink in 6% (22.8k) of relevant job posts

Beam is a unified programming model that can be executed on different execution engines, including Flink, making it complementary.

mentioned alongside Flink in 27% (2.6k) of relevant job posts

Hadoop's HDFS can be used as a storage layer for Flink, making them complementary in some use cases.

mentioned alongside Flink in 5% (9.9k) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Flink?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Flink

Orgs mentioning Flink

Engineering & R&D

0% (25k) job posts

11 organizations

Engineer

0% (24.8k) job posts

419 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (23k) job posts

1.7k organizations

Data Engineer

3% (9.6k) job posts

2.4k organizations

Machine Learning

1% (1.5k) job posts

308 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Flink?

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Scientific and Technical Services

Information

Retail Trade

Finance and Insurance

Finance and Insurance

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