
Tag: Apache Flink
Confluent’s New Cloud Capabilities Address Data Streaming Hurdles
Confluent has announced several new Confluent Cloud capabilities and features that address the data governance, security, and optimization needs of data streaming in the cloud. “Real-time data is the lifeblood of ev Read more…
Open Source Provides Path to Real-Time Stream Processing
Consumers expect immediate, personalized gratification. Real-time distributed stream processing enables companies to meet those expectations. However, many see the technology as being out of reach for all but the biggest Read more…
Apache Flink 1.17 Update Drives Streaming Data Warehouses
The folks at the Apache Flink project have announced a 1.17.0 release of the popular open source distributed framework for streaming data use cases. “Apache Flink is the leading stream processing standard, and the c Read more…
Aiven Announces General Availability of Aiven for Apache Flink
Open source cloud data platform Aiven has announced the general availability of Aiven for Apache Flink. This fully-managed service can be deployed in the cloud of a user’s choice and across multiple cloud vendors incl Read more…
Five Drivers Behind the Rapid Rise of Apache Flink
In 2022 alone, a total of at least $55 million has been invested by venture capitalists into startups building companies around Apache Flink, the open source project that’s used to process data streams at large scale a Read more…
Confluent to Develop Apache Flink Offering with Acquisition of Immerok
Confluent has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Immerok, a leading contributor to Apache Flink. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Apache Flink is used for querying streaming data, Read more…
New Flink Startup Immerok Gets Off the Ground
There’s a new startup dedicated to making a business out of Apache Flink, the distrubuted stream processing framework and dataflow architecture that emerged from Germany over 10 years ago. With offices in Berlin and Ne Read more…
A Dozen Questions for Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia
Matei Zaharia is a very busy man. When he’s not helping to shape the future of Databricks as its CTO, he is helping to shape the future of computer science as an assistant professor at Stanford University. He also fi Read more…
With Integration Complete, Cloudera Re-Launches SQL Stream Builder
In October, Cloudera acquired Eventador, which developed a SQL-based streaming data analysis solution based on Apache Flink. With the work to integrate that product with the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) complete, the com Read more…
Apache Flink Gets More Stateful
An updated application programming interface for building and orchestrating stateful applications, so-called because such programs retain client data from one session to the next, is also the first event-driven database Read more…
Flink Gets Extension into Stateful Functions
Ververica, the company behind open source Apache Flink, this week unveiled Stateful Functions, a new framework designed to extend Flink into the world of distributed, stateful applications. Stateful Functions is a col Read more…
Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB
Apache Kafka and its accompanying key-value store are being used to provide persistent storage for a growing list of relational databases. Most used a key-value store as a foundation. Among the latest to emerge is Kar Read more…
Understanding Your Options for Stream Processing Frameworks
Real-time stream processing isn't a new concept, but it's experiencing renewed interest from organizations tasked with finding ways to quickly process large volumes of streaming data. Luckily for you, there are a handful Read more…
Alibaba Acquires Apache Flink Backer data Artisans
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group has acquired data Artisans, the German company behind the Apache Flink data processing framework. Alibaba is one of the biggest users of Flink, and plans to continue developing and Fl Read more…
Flink Delivers ACID Transactions on Streaming Data
The folks behind Apache Flink just delivered something you may not have realized you needed: ACID guarantees in a stream processing framework. According to data Artisans, its new Streaming Ledger offering could even repl Read more…
Apache Flink Gets An SQL Client
The latest release of the Apache Flink framework introduces the capability to execute exploratory SQL queries on data streams from a new SQL client, which will open the processing framework to a new class of users. Ap Read more…
How Netflix Optimized Flink for Massive Scale on AWS
When it comes to streaming data, it's tough to find a company operating on a more massive scale than Netflix, which streams more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies -- per day. Netflix captures billions of pi Read more…
Managing Streaming Flink Apps Is About To Get Easier
Apache Flink has emerged as a powerful platform for building real-time stream processing applications. However, not every organization has the resources to go all in on Flink the way Netflix, Uber, and Alibaba have. That Read more…
Flink Aims to Simplify Stream Processing
Apache Flink has emerged as a powerful framework for building real-time stream processing applications that has gained traction by some of the most progressive tech companies in the world, including at Netflix, Uber, and Read more…