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