[jira] [Commented] (FLINK-3089) State API Should Support Data Expiration (State TTL)

["Bowen Li (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Bowen Li commented on FLINK-3089:
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[~srichter] [~aljoscha] guys, I want to follow up on this ticket.

To enforce TtlDB delete all records that have expired before checkpoints/savepoints, we can call {{RocksDB#compactRange()}} (synchronous call) to do a manual compaction.

What are your thoughts?



> State API Should Support Data Expiration (State TTL)
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-3089
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3089
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: DataStream API, State Backends, Checkpointing
>            Reporter: Niels Basjes
>            Assignee: Bowen Li
>
> In some usecases (webanalytics) there is a need to have a state per visitor on a website (i.e. keyBy(sessionid) ).
> At some point the visitor simply leaves and no longer creates new events (so a special 'end of session' event will not occur).
> The only way to determine that a visitor has left is by choosing a timeout, like "After 30 minutes no events we consider the visitor 'gone'".
> Only after this (chosen) timeout has expired should we discard this state.
> In the Trigger part of Windows we can set a timer and close/discard this kind of information. But that introduces the buffering effect of the window (which in some scenarios is unwanted).
> What I would like is to be able to set a timeout on a specific state which I can update afterwards.
> This makes it possible to create a map function that assigns the right value and that discards the state automatically.



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