[jira] [Updated] (FLUME-1227) Introduce some sort of SpillableChannel

["Roshan Naik (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1227?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Roshan Naik updated FLUME-1227:
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    Attachment: 1227.patch.1

Spillable channel initial version for preliminary feedback.

Big Open Issue : Overflow channel is specified at config time. this has required a hack to work around the limitations of the config subsystem

The basic design of how the overflow is maintained and how the order of elements is maintained is previously discussed in this Jira (search for DOQ). 
                
> Introduce some sort of SpillableChannel
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLUME-1227
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1227
>             Project: Flume
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Channel
>            Reporter: Jarek Jarcec Cecho
>            Assignee: Roshan Naik
>         Attachments: 1227.patch.1
>
>
> I would like to introduce new channel that would behave similarly as scribe (https://github.com/facebook/scribe). It would be something between memory and file channel. Input events would be saved directly to the memory (only) and would be served from there. In case that the memory would be full, we would outsource the events to file.
> Let me describe the use case behind this request. We have plenty of frontend servers that are generating events. We want to send all events to just limited number of machines from where we would send the data to HDFS (some sort of staging layer). Reason for this second layer is our need to decouple event aggregation and front end code to separate machines. Using memory channel is fully sufficient as we can survive lost of some portion of the events. However in order to sustain maintenance windows or networking issues we would have to end up with a lot of memory assigned to those "staging" machines. Referenced "scribe" is dealing with this problem by implementing following logic - events are saved in memory similarly as our MemoryChannel. However in case that the memory gets full (because of maintenance, networking issues, ...) it will spill data to disk where they will be sitting until everything start working again.
> I would like to introduce channel that would implement similar logic. It's durability guarantees would be same as MemoryChannel - in case that someone would remove power cord, this channel would lose data. Based on the discussion in FLUME-1201, I would propose to have the implementation completely independent on any other channel internal code.
> Jarcec

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