Thanks for sharing that. I recently was looking at a different comparison of the _batch_ capabilities of flink and SS [1], which found that flink was faster at terasort than SS. I'm curious to understand why it is that it looks like SS can get higher throughput than flink in the streaming case, but less in the batch case.
I don't think SS gets higher streaming throughput than Flink. That was an assumption written in the Yahoo! streaming benchmark without an actual experiment.
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/ssuser6bb12d/a-comparative-perform...