[jira] [Created] (FLINK-17505) Merge small files produced by StreamingFileSink

["Piotr Nowojski (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Piotr Nowojski created FLINK-17505:
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             Summary: Merge small files produced by StreamingFileSink
                 Key: FLINK-17505
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-17505
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Connectors / FileSystem
    Affects Versions: 1.10.0
            Reporter: Piotr Nowojski


This an alternative approach to FLINK-11499, to solve a problem of creating many small files with bulk formats in StreamingFileSink (which have to be rolled on checkpoint).

Merge based approach would require converting {{StreamingFileSink}} from a sink, to an operator, that would be working exactly as it’s working right now, with the same limitations (no support for arbitrary rolling policies for bulk formats), followed by another operator that would be tasked with merging small files in the background. 

In the long term we probably would like to have both merge operator and write ahead log solution (WAL described in FLINK-11499) as alternatives, as WAL would behave better if small files are more common, and merge operator could behave better if small files are rare (because of data skew for example).




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