[jira] [Created] (FLINK-2284) Confusing/inconsistent PartitioningStrategy

["Stephan Ewen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Stephan Ewen created FLINK-2284:
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             Summary: Confusing/inconsistent PartitioningStrategy
                 Key: FLINK-2284
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2284
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Streaming
    Affects Versions: 0.9
            Reporter: Stephan Ewen


The PartitioningStrategy in {{org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.partitioner.StreamPartitioner.java}} is non standard and not easily understandable.

What form of partitioning is `SHUFFLE`? Shuffle just means "redistribute", it says nothing about what it does. Same with `DISTRIBUTE`. Also `GLOBAL` is not a well-defined/established term. Why is `GROUPBY` a partition type? Doesn't grouping simply hash partition (like I assume "SHUFFLE" means), so why does it have an extra entry?

Sticking with principled and established names/concepts is important to allow people to collaborate on the code. 

Why not stick with the partitioning types defined in the batch API? They are well defined and named:
```
NONE, FORWARD, RANDOM, HASH, RANGE, FORCED_REBALANCE, BROADCAST, CUSTOM
```




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