SAN FRANCISCO, October 17, 2024 -- StreamNative, the cloud-native data streaming company founded by the original creators of Apache Pulsar, announced a managed Apache Flink BYOC product offering available to StreamNative customers in private preview. The offering is powered by Ververica, the original creators of Apache Flink. Businesses worldwide have extensively used Pulsar or Kafka with Flink, and this new managed service provides simplicity when deploying real-time applications in the cloud.
StreamNative's managed service will first be available in Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment. Integrating Flink's advanced stream processing capabilities with StreamNative's robust streaming data storage layer in the same Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) ensures data sovereignty across the entire data processing lifecycle, simplifying streaming processing implementation and lowering barriers to adopting data streaming. The offering will soon be available in other StreamNative Cloud offerings, including Serverless, Dedicated, and private cloud.
StreamNative customers use an optimized version of Apache Pulsar run by Ursa engine, which advances Pulsar as a versatile data streaming platform built on lakehouse storage that seamlessly integrates multiple tenants and data types. It supports various protocols including Apache Kafka while unifying streaming and tabular data at the storage level. StreamNative's offering combines with Ververica's VERA engine, optimized for best Flink performance.
Integrations between separate cloud platforms typically require complex networking setup and inter-account or inter-AZ traffic, creating exorbitant cloud vendor costs. Data sovereignty is a major concern when stream processing vendors don't offer BYOC. This collaboration combines two best-in-class technologies to deliver simple, powerful, secure, and cost-efficient stream processing. Integrating Ververica's VERA engine with StreamNative's data streaming platform simplifies stream processing implementation.
"Apache Pulsar provides fundamental real-time data serving and storage ability while Apache Flink provides critical computing ability for both streaming and batch use cases. Together, these technologies enable powerful applications such as real-time fraud detection in financial services, dynamic inventory management in retail, and predictive maintenance in manufacturing. This offering is a major step forward in StreamNative's mission to make data streaming accessible, affordable, and reliable for all organizations." -- Sijie Guo, CEO and co-founder of StreamNative
"We are thrilled to partner with StreamNative to bring Apache Flink's powerful stream processing capabilities to their cloud platform. By combining Ververica's deep Flink expertise with StreamNative's innovative Pulsar-based infrastructure, we're helping companies build applications that perform even faster and at a lower total cost of ownership than options available until this point, all with unprecedented ease and efficiency. This partnership represents a significant step forward in making advanced stream processing accessible and manageable for businesses of all shapes and sizes." -- Alexander Walden, CEO at Ververica
Core Features
The managed Flink solution includes:
- Ability to run Flink SQL queries
- Ability to deploy Flink jobs
- Platform management capabilities via Command Line Interface and APIs
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