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Apache Flink

Apache Flink is an open-source stream processing tool published under the Apache project · apache.org ↗

–Too few to rank
11/14Models named it
0First choices
5Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inStreaming platforms #78 mid-marketWorkflow orchestration #44
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Apache Flink has 6.

Why models recommend it

“Flink when the core requirement is real-time computation rather than message transport”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

“Tools like Apache Flink (for processing, not core streaming) add complexity if overused.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“uses far fewer resources than Kafka, Pulsar, or Flink”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Apache Flink, over the 15 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Apache Flink came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 12 of the 15 answers that named Apache Flink and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

textql.com5
github.com4
linkedin.com4
acemq.com3
ciopages.com3
confluent.io3
cotocus.com3
estuary.dev3
ibm.com3
kai-waehner.de3

Thirty-four of the thirty-four domain citations in answers naming Apache Flink came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Apache Flink across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.2000011
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00011
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00101

What it publishes

Addresses on apache.org
2,858
subdomains included
Content
1,384
counted in the table below
Documentation
375
Product · Integration
16 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
News or press1,081122026-09-03
Blog22812026-07-01
Template or tool38undated
Report or ebook14undated
Conference or event1002026-06-09
Glossary or explainer9undated
Case study2undated
Webinar or virtual event2undated
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page apache.org exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.