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Flink comes from a more database oriented background. It grew out of research project at TU Berlin[1]. I believe, Flink tried to focus on query language and op
by mtrn 11y ago
Flink comes from a more database oriented background. It grew out of research project at TU Berlin[1].
I believe, Flink tried to focus on query language and optimization, as you probably would in a database settings. In contrast, Spark is sometimes described as a batch processing system, which provides a real-time experience by intelligently partitioning the work.
[1] http://stratosphere.eu/ http://stratosphere.eu/
- sewen 11y agoThat was the research project where many contributors came from. Most of the streaming tech and developments in Flink are very disconnected from that and have little to do with database tech any more, actually.