What is the role of Flink in Java?

Flink is a stream data processing framework designed to handle and analyze real-time data streams. It supports event-driven applications, can process large-scale datasets, and supports complex data transformations and analysis operations. Flink is used for real-time data analysis, monitoring, alerting, recommendations, etc. It offers a rich set of APIs and tools, making it easy for developers to quickly build complex real-time data processing applications. Flink’s key features include low latency, high throughput, Exactly-once semantics, state management, etc.