Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform

Dec 9, 2024 · Big Data

Why Kafka Falls Short for Real‑Time Analytics and How Fluss Changes the Game

Flink Forward Asia 2024 highlighted the limitations of Kafka for real‑time analytics—lack of updates, poor data exploration, costly back‑tracking, and high network overhead—while introducing Fluss, a columnar streaming storage that offers low‑latency reads, CDC, lake‑stream integration, and efficient Delta Join for scalable, fast analytics.