What is Apache Flink?
Flink is a distributed processing engine and a scalable data analytics framework. You can use Flink to process data streams at a large scale and to deliver real-time analytical insights about your processed data with your streaming application.
Flink is designed to run in all common cluster environments, perform computations at
in-memory speed and at any scale. Furthermore, Flink provides communication, fault
tolerance, and data distribution for distributed computations over data streams. A large
variety of enterprises choose Flink as a stream processing platform due to its ability
to handle scale, stateful stream processing, and event time.