What is Apache Flink? — Applications # Apache Flink is a framework for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams. Flink provides multiple APIs at different levels of abstraction and offers dedicated libraries for common use cases. Here, we present Flink’s easy-to-use and expressive APIs and libraries. Building Blocks for Streaming Applications # The types of applications that can be built with and executed by a stream processing framework are defined by how well the fr...
