I just put an answer to SO. About the other questions: Flink processes tuple-by-tuple and does some internal buffering. You might be interested in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Data+exchange+between+tasks
-Matthias On 06/09/2016 08:13 PM, Nikos R. Katsipoulakis wrote: > Hello all, > > At first, I have a question posted on > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37732978/join-two-streams-using-a-count-based-window > . I am re-posting this on the mailing list in case some of you are not > on SO. > > In addition, I would like to know what is the difference between Flink > and other Streaming engines on data-granularity transport and > processing. To be more precise, I am aware that Storm sends tuples using > Netty (by filling up queues) and a Bolt's logic is executed per tuple. > Spark, employs micro-batches to simulate streaming and (I am not > entirely certain) each task performs processing on a micro-batch. What > about Flink? How are tuples transferred and processed. Any explanation > and or article/blog-post/link is more than welcome. > > Thanks > > -- > Nikos R. Katsipoulakis, > Department of Computer Science > University of Pittsburgh
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