Alibaba Cloud Realtime Compute for Apache Flink vs Apache Kafka

Alibaba Cloud Realtime Compute for Apache Flink

5.4 #20 in Streaming Analytics Software

About Alibaba Cloud Realtime Compute for Apache Flink

Apache Kafka

4.9 #39 in Message Broker Software

About Apache Kafka
Alibaba Cloud Realtime Compute for Apache FlinkApache Kafka
Free planNoNo
Free trialNoNo
Paid from——
Open sourceNoNo
PlatformsWeb—
Free planNo—
Deploymentcloud—
SQL interfaceYes—
Event-time processingYes—
Stateful processingYes—
Exactly-once processingYes—
WatermarksYes—
Supported languagesSQL, Java, Python, Scala—

Both are listed in Best Streaming Analytics Software. On Samsung Mobile US Press, Alibaba Cloud Realtime Compute for Apache Flink scores higher on our published basis.