[jira] [Created] (FLINK-12692) Support disk spilling in HeapKeyedStateBackend

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

Yu Li created FLINK-12692:
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             Summary: Support disk spilling in HeapKeyedStateBackend
                 Key: FLINK-12692
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12692
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Runtime / State Backends
            Reporter: Yu Li
            Assignee: Yu Li


{{HeapKeyedStateBackend}} is one of the two {{KeyedStateBackends}} in Flink, since state lives as Java objects on the heap and the de/serialization only happens during state snapshot and restore, it outperforms {{RocksDBKeyedStateBackend}} when all data could reside in memory.

However, along with the advantage, {{HeapKeyedStateBackend}} also has its shortcomings, and the most painful one is the difficulty to estimate the maximum heap size (Xmx) to set, and we will suffer from GC impact once the heap memory is not enough to hold all state data. There’re several (inevitable) causes for such scenario, including (but not limited to):
* Memory overhead of Java object representation (tens of times of the serialized data size).
* Data flood caused by burst traffic.
* Data accumulation caused by source malfunction.

To resolve this problem, we propose a solution to support spilling state data to disk before heap memory is exhausted. We will monitor the heap usage and choose the coldest data to spill, and reload them when heap memory is regained after data removing or TTL expiration, automatically.

More details please refer to the design doc and mailing list discussion.



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