Big Data Digest: How many Hadoops do we need?

Say hello to Flink, the newest distributed data analysis engine on the scene.This week, the Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Flink as its newest Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache also provides a home for Hadoop, Cassandra, Lucene and many widely used open source data processing tools, so Flink’s entry into the group speaks well for its technical chops.Don’t worry if you hadn’t heard of Flink before—it came to a surprise to us as well. Like Spark, another emerging data process