[jira] [Updated] (FLINK-9749) Rework Bucketing Sink

["Till Rohrmann (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Till Rohrmann updated FLINK-9749:
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    Fix Version/s: 1.6.2

> Rework Bucketing Sink
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>
>                 Key: FLINK-9749
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9749
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Streaming Connectors
>            Reporter: Stephan Ewen
>            Assignee: Kostas Kloudas
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 1.6.2
>
>
> The BucketingSink has a series of deficits at the moment.
> Due to the long list of issues, I would suggest to add a new StreamingFileSink with a new and cleaner design
> h3. Encoders, Parquet, ORC
>  - It only efficiently supports row-wise data formats (avro, jso, sequence files.
>  - Efforts to add (columnar) compression for blocks of data is inefficient, because blocks cannot span checkpoints due to persistence-on-checkpoint.
>  - The encoders are part of the \{{flink-connector-filesystem project}}, rather than in orthogonal formats projects. This blows up the dependencies of the \{{flink-connector-filesystem project}} project. As an example, the rolling file sink has dependencies on Hadoop and Avro, which messes up dependency management.
> h3. Use of FileSystems
>  - The BucketingSink works only on Hadoop's FileSystem abstraction not support Flink's own FileSystem abstraction and cannot work with the packaged S3, maprfs, and swift file systems
>  - The sink hence needs Hadoop as a dependency
>  - The sink relies on "trying out" whether truncation works, which requires write access to the users working directory
>  - The sink relies on enumerating and counting files, rather than maintaining its own state, making less efficient
> h3. Correctness and Efficiency on S3
>  - The BucketingSink relies on strong consistency in the file enumeration, hence may work incorrectly on S3.
>  - The BucketingSink relies on persisting streams at intermediate points. This is not working properly on S3, hence there may be data loss on S3.
> h3. .valid-length companion file
>  - The valid length file makes it hard for consumers of the data and should be dropped
> We track this design in a series of sub issues.



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