[jira] [Commented] (FLINK-3257) Add Exactly-Once Processing Guarantees in Iterative DataStream Jobs

["Márton Balassi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Márton Balassi commented on FLINK-3257:
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Hey Paris, how urgent is this feature for you? I have a master student who would love to give this implementation a try if it is not an immediate task on your side.

> Add Exactly-Once Processing Guarantees in Iterative DataStream Jobs
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>
>                 Key: FLINK-3257
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3257
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Paris Carbone
>            Assignee: Paris Carbone
>
> The current snapshotting algorithm cannot support cycles in the execution graph. An alternative scheme can potentially include records in-transit through the back-edges of a cyclic execution graph (ABS [1]) to achieve the same guarantees.
> One straightforward implementation of ABS for cyclic graphs can work as follows along the lines:
> 1) Upon triggering a barrier in an IterationHead from the TaskManager start block output and start upstream backup of all records forwarded from the respective IterationSink.
> 2) The IterationSink should eventually forward the current snapshotting epoch barrier to the IterationSource.
> 3) Upon receiving a barrier from the IterationSink, the IterationSource should finalize the snapshot, unblock its output and emit all records in-transit in FIFO order and continue the usual execution.
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> Upon restart the IterationSource should emit all records from the injected snapshot first and then continue its usual execution.
> Several optimisations and slight variations can be potentially achieved but this can be the initial implementation take.
> [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08603



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