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Alibaba Group · China

Unified real-time analytics across Alibaba Group

Alibaba uses Fluss as a shared ingestion and serving layer for behavioral analytics across Taobao, Tmall, Ele.me, Amap, and Alibaba Pictures.

About Alibaba Group

Alibaba Group is a technology company whose core businesses are e-commerce and cloud computing.

Behavioral data collection at group scale

The A+ platform collects events from web, mobile apps, mini-programs, and server SDKs. Alibaba reports processing 4 PB daily during Double 11 2025, with peaks of 100 million TPS and 100 GiB/s, and over 40% lower pipeline costs.

Real-time experiments at Taotian

Across more than 100 experimentation scenarios, Fluss feeds search, recommendations, content, and growth analytics. The team reports 59% lower Flink CPU usage, 73% lower memory usage, and near elimination of over 100 TB of operator state.

Streaming into the Lakehouse

Fluss tiers data into Paimon/Alake, replacing separate Lambda pipelines. Streaming consumers receive updates within seconds; the lake becomes available within minutes. Partial-column updates also lower the cost of batch backfills.

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