Big Data Technology & Architecture

Mar 4, 2024 · Big Data

Evolution of Flink State Storage and Compute‑Storage Separation Architecture

This article examines the evolution of Flink's state storage, discusses challenges posed by cloud‑native deployments, reviews recent community and Alibaba enhancements such as unaligned checkpoints, incremental snapshots, and the Gemini layered storage system, and proposes future directions for a compute‑storage separation architecture.