Lakehouse Research Base

Oct 13, 2026 · Big Data

Taobao's Real-Time Lakehouse: Breaking the Impossible Triangle with Apache Fluss

This article details how Taobao's instant retail team replaced their Kafka-Flink-Paimon stack with Apache Fluss to achieve second-level real-time decisions, using Delta Join for stateless dual-stream joins, Partial Update for decoupled wide-table writes, and Auto-Tiering to eliminate sync jobs, while contrasting Ele.me's Paimon+StarRocks evolutionary path.