Hi! Yes, you can run Flink completely without HDFS.
Also the checkpointing can put state into any file system, like S3, or a Unix file system (like a NAS or Amazon EBS), or even Tachyon. Greetings, Stephan On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Jerry Peng <jerry.boyang.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Does flink require hdfs to run? I know you can use hdfs to checkpoint and > process files in a distributed fashion. So can flink run standalone > without hdfs? >
