Cool... Thanks for the update.. What would be a good way to start contributing into flink. I am comfortable with java but not so much on scala end but I would love to pick it up as I go.. But basically, is there a good starting place for start pitching in and contribute?
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Fabian Hueske <[email protected]> wrote: > In fact, the use-cases of Spark and Flink overlap a bit. However, the > technology used under the hood is quite different. Flink shares a lot of > similarities with relational DBMS. Data is serialized in byte buffers > and processed a lot in binary representation. This also allows for > fine-grained memory control. Flink uses a pipelined processing model and it > has a cost-based optimizer that selects execution strategies and avoids > expensive partitioning and sorting steps. Moreover, Flink features a > special kind of iterations (delta-iterations) that can significantly reduce > the amount of computations as iterations go on (the vertex-centric > computing model of Pregel / Giraph is a special kind of that). > > Btw. The academic projects from which Spark and Flink originated > started about the same time ;-) > > Best, Fabian > > 2014-10-19 20:33 GMT+02:00 Mohit Singh <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> Good to see another interesting apache incubator project but I am just >> curious on what is flink trying to solve which spark is not currently >> addressing? I am sure you get this question a lot.. :) >> Thanks >> >> -- >> Mohit >> >> "When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get >> it. There is no other secret of success." >> -Socrates >> > > -- Mohit "When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success." -Socrates
