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

["Gyula Fora (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gyula Fora commented on FLINK-2284:
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We took these names from Storm which we saw at that point a standard for streaming concepts.

> 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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