Before you purchase Realtime Compute for Apache Flink, you need to understand its service types and features to select an instance that meets your business requirements. This topic describes the differences between the service types, their release statuses, and provides suggestions to help you make a selection.
Form Differences
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Product Offerings |
Deployment mode |
Compute engine |
Development platform |
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Fully managed Flink |
Kubernetes container-based deployment |
Ververica Runtime (VVR) |
Enterprise-level development and O&M platform |
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Semi-managed Flink/EMR Note
This refers to a Dataflow cluster on Alibaba Cloud E-MapReduce (EMR). For more information, see Overview of Flink. |
Yarn-based deployment |
VVR |
Custom |
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Blink dedicated cluster (legacy) |
Yarn-based deployment |
Blink |
Bayes |
Release status
For more information about product release statuses, see Lifecycle Policy.
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Product Type |
Release status |
EOM1 |
EOM2 |
EOFS |
EOS |
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Fully managed Flink |
GA |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
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Semi-managed Flink/EMR |
GA |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
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Blink dedicated cluster (legacy) |
EOM2 |
April 28, 2021 |
November 15, 2022 |
March 30, 2023 |
July 30, 2023 |
Selection suggestions
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Product offerings |
Suggestion |
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Fully managed Flink |
If your company or team wants to focus on business development without spending much time on cluster O&M, use the fully managed Flink product. |
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Semi-managed Flink/EMR |
If your company or team wants full control over cluster resources during business development and is familiar with Yarn or Alibaba Cloud E-MapReduce, use the Semi-managed Flink/EMR product. |
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Blink dedicated cluster (legacy) |
As of April 28, 2021, you can no longer purchase new Blink dedicated clusters (legacy). The product has entered the EOM1 phase. For more information, see Service Notices for Realtime Compute (Blink) (New Purchases Discontinued). Important
Blink dedicated clusters now only support scale-out or scale-in operations for existing clusters. For new purchases, use fully managed Flink. |