Apache Flink is a powerful, mature, open-source framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams. Developed under the Apache Software Foundation, Flink is designed for high performance, scalability, and fault tolerance, making it a popular choice for real-time analytics, event-driven applications, and complex stream processing pipelines.
While both Flink and RisingWave are powerful stream processing systems, they have different architectures and target use cases:
In essence, Flink can be seen as a powerful toolkit for building custom streaming applications, while RisingWave offers a more integrated, database-centric approach specifically optimized for continuous SQL-based stream processing and serving materialized results.