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Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams, designed to run in common cluster environments with in-memory speed and scalability. It provides exactly-once state consistency, event-time processing, and late data handling, with layered APIs including DataStream, ProcessFunction, and SQL-on-Stream-and-Batch for streaming and bounded data. It is used for event-driven applications, real-time stream and batch analytics, and ETL/data pipelines, and includes ecosystem components like the Flink Kubernetes Operator, CDC, Stateful Functions, and ML capabilities.
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