Apache Flink Alternatives

Apache Flink is described as 'Flink’s core is a streaming dataflow engine that provides data distribution, communication, and fault tolerance for distributed computations over data streams' and is a Cloud Computing service in the business & commerce category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Apache Flink for a variety of platforms, including Linux, SaaS, Self-Hosted, Web-based and Mac apps. The best Apache Flink alternative is Splunk, which is free. Other great apps like Apache Flink are Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, StreamSets and ILUM.

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  1. Splunk icon
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    Splunk is software that provides unique visibility across your entire IT infrastructure from one place in real time. Only Splunk enables you to search, report, monitor and analyze streaming and historical data from any source.

    99 Splunk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Splunk is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Apache Flink.

    • Splunk is the most popular free alternative to Apache Flink.

    • Splunk is Freemium and Proprietary Apache Flink is Free and Open Source
  2. Apache Spark icon
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    Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Python
     
    • Apache Spark is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Apache Flink.

    • Apache Spark is the most popular Open Source alternative to Apache Flink.

    • Apache Spark is Free and Open Source Apache Flink is also Free and Open Source
  3. Apache Hadoop icon
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    Apache Hadoop is a open source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications licensed under the Apache v2 license. It enables applications to work with thousands of computational independent computers and petabytes of data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    An end-to-end data engineering platform to design, deploy, operate and optimize data pipelines to deliver continuous data via DataOps.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
     
    • StreamSets is the most popular Web-based & SaaS alternative to Apache Flink.

    • StreamSets is the most popular commercial alternative to Apache Flink.

    • StreamSets is Paid and Proprietary Apache Flink is Free and Open Source
  5. ILUM icon
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    Ilum is a free data lakehouse platform designed for scalability, flexibility, and simplicity.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Kubernetes
     
  6. Gigasheet icon
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    The big data spreadsheet that requires no coding skills.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Disco is a lightweight, open-source framework for distributed computing based on the MapReduce paradigm and written in Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. IQLECT icon
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    IQLECT is the creator of Ampere, a real-time big data analytics platform. Various apps for data center infrastructure monitoring, clickstream analysis, log analysis and others can be deployed on the platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Apache Storm icon
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    Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. Gravwell icon
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    Gravwell is an all-you-can-ingest data fusion analytics platform that enables complete context and root cause analytics for security and business data.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Heron icon
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    Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    RDA automates IT DataOps with low-code software bots and pipelines authored in AIOps Studio. RDA lets you go from data to insights and action in minutes. ITOps personnel, professional service teams and MSPs can accelerate AIOps/Observability projects.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
     
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