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, Self-Hosted, SaaS, 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 Gigasheet.

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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.

    109 Splunk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Python
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  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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  4. 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

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
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  5. Gigasheet icon
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    The big data spreadsheet that requires no coding skills.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  6. 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
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  7. Logpoint icon
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    Logpoint provides a converged cybersecurity platform that empowers organizations to thrive in a world of evolving threats. Established in 2012, Logpoint has consistently championed the mission of fortifying the digital heart of organizations.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. 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
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  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
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  10. 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.

    192 IQLECT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  11. 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
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Virtual-appliance log platform for on-network deployment, ingesting OTLP, syslog, and Fluentd data. It pairs natural-language log search and alert root-cause analysis with an LLM endpoint you control, while retaining search, dashboards, alerting, and incident tracking.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
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