I think that is actually a cool way to kick of an addition to the system.
Gives you a lot of flexibility and releasing and testing...

It helps, though, to upload maven artifacts for it!

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Gyula Fóra <gyf...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> We decided to make this a standalone library until it is stable enough and
> then we can decide whether we want to keep it like that or include in the
> project:
>
> https://github.com/gyfora/StreamKV
>
> Cheers,
> Gyula
>
> Gianmarco De Francisci Morales <g...@apache.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2015.
> szept. 9., Sze, 20:25):
>
> > Yes, pretty clear. I guess semantically it's still a co-group, but
> > implemented slightly differently.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Gianmarco
> >
> > On 9 September 2015 at 15:37, Gyula Fóra <gyula.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Gianmarco,
> > >
> > > So the implementation looks something different:
> > >
> > > The update stream is received by a stateful KVStoreOperator which
> stores
> > > the K-V pairs as their partitioned state.
> > >
> > > The query for the 2 cities is assigned an ID yes, and is split to the 2
> > > cities, and each of these are  sent to the same KVStoreOperator as the
> > > update stream. The output is the value for each key practically (qid,
> > > city1, temp1) which is retreived from the operator state , and this
> > output
> > > is merged in a next operator to form the KV[] output on which the user
> > can
> > > execute the difference if he wants.
> > >
> > > So actually no co-group is happening although semantically it might be
> > > similar. Instead I use stateful operators to be much more efficient.
> > >
> > > Does this answer you question?
> > >
> > > Gyula
> > >
> > > Gianmarco De Francisci Morales <g...@apache.org> ezt írta (időpont:
> > 2015.
> > > szept. 9., Sze, 14:29):
> > >
> > > > Just a silly question.
> > > > For the example you described, in a data flow model, you would do
> > > something
> > > > like this:
> > > >
> > > > Have query ids added to the city pairs (qid, city1, city2),
> > > > then split the query stream on the two cities and co-group it with
> the
> > > > updates stream ((city1, qid) , (city, temp)), same for city2,
> > > > then emit (qid, city1, temp1), (qid, city2, temp2) from the two
> > > co-groups,
> > > > group on the qid, and apply a difference operator to get the final
> > > answer.
> > > >
> > > > Is your  idea to implement a way to generalize this logic, or it
> would
> > > use
> > > > remote read/write to a KV-store?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Gianmarco
> > > >
> > > > On 8 September 2015 at 16:27, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > That's a very nice application of the Stream API and partitioned
> > state.
> > > > :D
> > > > >
> > > > > I think we should run some tests on a cluster  based on this to see
> > > what
> > > > > kind of throughput the partitioned state system can handle and also
> > how
> > > > it
> > > > > behaves with larger numbers of keys. The KVStore is just an
> interface
> > > and
> > > > > the really heavy lifting is done by the state system so this would
> > be a
> > > > > good test for it.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 at 15:10 Gyula Fóra <gyula.f...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > @Stephan:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Technically speaking this is really just a partitioned key-value
> > > state
> > > > > and
> > > > > > a fancy operator executing special operations on this state.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > From the user's perspective though this is something hard to
> > > implement.
> > > > > If
> > > > > > you want to share state between two stream for instance this way
> > > > (getting
> > > > > > updates from one stream and enriching the other one) you would
> > > probably
> > > > > use
> > > > > > a connected datastream and custom implement the Key-value store
> > > logic.
> > > > > But
> > > > > > once you have one(or more) update stream and many get streams
> this
> > > > > > implementation will not work. So either the user end up
> replicating
> > > the
> > > > > > whole state in multiple connected operators, or custom implement
> > some
> > > > > > inefficient wrapper class to take care of all the put/get
> > operations.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The Idea behind this is to give a very simple abstraction for
> this
> > > type
> > > > > of
> > > > > > processing that uses the flink runtime efficiently instead of
> > relying
> > > > on
> > > > > > custom implementations.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Let me give you a stupid example:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You receive Temperature data in the form of (city, temperature),
> > and
> > > > you
> > > > > > are computing a rolling avg for each city.
> > > > > > Now you have 2 other incoming streams: first is a stream of some
> > > other
> > > > > info
> > > > > > about the city let's say population (city, population) and you
> want
> > > to
> > > > > > combine it with the last known avg temperature to produce (city,
> > > temp,
> > > > > pop)
> > > > > > triplets. The second stream is a pair of cities (city,city) and
> you
> > > are
> > > > > > interested in the difference of the temperature.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > For enriching the (city, pop) to (city,temp,pop) you would
> probably
> > > > use a
> > > > > > CoFlatMap and store the last known rolling avg as state. For
> > > computing
> > > > > the
> > > > > > (city,city) temperature difference it is a little more difficult,
> > as
> > > > you
> > > > > > need to get the temperature for both cities then combine in a
> > second
> > > > > > operator. If you don't want to replicate your state, you have to
> > > > combine
> > > > > > these two problems to a common wrapper type and execute them on a
> > > same
> > > > > > operator which will keep the avg state.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > With the KVStore abstraction this is very simple:
> > > > > > you create a KVStore<City, Temp>
> > > > > > For enriching you use kvStore.getWithKeySelector() which will
> give
> > > you
> > > > > > ((cit,pop), temp) pairs and you are done. For computing the
> > > difference,
> > > > > you
> > > > > > can use kvStore.multiget(...) and get for the 2 cities at the
> same
> > > > type.
> > > > > > The kv store will abstract away the getting of the 2 keys
> > separately
> > > > and
> > > > > > merging them so it will return [(city1, t1), (city2,t2)].
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This might be slightly artificial example but I think it makes
> the
> > > > point.
> > > > > > Implementing these jobs efficiently is not trivial for the users
> > but
> > > I
> > > > > > think it is a very common problem.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2015. szept.
> > 8.,
> > > K,
> > > > > > 14:53):
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > @Gyula
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Can you explain a bit what this KeyValue store would do more
> then
> > > the
> > > > > > > partitioned key/value state?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Gábor Gévay <gga...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > As for use cases, in my old job at Ericsson we were building
> a
> > > > > > > > streaming system that was processing data from telephone
> > > networks,
> > > > > and
> > > > > > > > it was using key-value stores a LOT. For example, keeping
> track
> > > of
> > > > > > > > various state info of the users (which cell are they
> currently
> > > > > > > > connected to, what bearers do they have, ...); mapping from
> IDs
> > > of
> > > > > > > > users in one subsystem of the telephone network to the IDs of
> > the
> > > > > same
> > > > > > > > users in an other subsystem; mapping from IDs of phone calls
> to
> > > > lists
> > > > > > > > of IDs of participating users; etc.
> > > > > > > > So I imagine they would like this a lot. (At least, if they
> > were
> > > > > > > > considering moving to Flink :))
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Best,
> > > > > > > > Gabor
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > 2015-09-08 13:35 GMT+02:00 Gyula Fóra <gyf...@apache.org>:
> > > > > > > > > Hey All,
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > The last couple of days I have been playing around with the
> > > idea
> > > > of
> > > > > > > > > building a streaming key-value store abstraction using
> > stateful
> > > > > > > streaming
> > > > > > > > > operators that can be used within Flink Streaming programs
> > > > > > seamlessly.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Operations executed on this KV store would be fault
> tolerant
> > as
> > > > it
> > > > > > > > > integrates with the checkpointing mechanism, and if we add
> > > > > timestamps
> > > > > > > to
> > > > > > > > > each put/get/... operation we can use the watermarks to
> > create
> > > > > fully
> > > > > > > > > deterministic results. This functionality is very useful
> for
> > > many
> > > > > > > > > applications, and is very hard to implement properly with
> > some
> > > > > > > dedicates
> > > > > > > > kv
> > > > > > > > > store.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > The KVStore abstraction could look as follows:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > KVStore<K,V> store = new KVStore<>;
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Operations:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > store.put(DataStream<Tuple2<K,V>>)
> > > > > > > > > store.get(DataStream<K>) -> DataStream<KV<K,V>>
> > > > > > > > > store.remove(DataStream<K>) -> DataStream<KV<K,V>>
> > > > > > > > > store.multiGet(DataStream<K[]>) -> DataStream<KV<K,V>[]>
> > > > > > > > > store.getWithKeySelector(DataStream<X>, KeySelector<X,K>)
> ->
> > > > > > > > > DataStream<KV<X,V>[]>
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > For the resulting streams I used a special KV abstraction
> > which
> > > > > let's
> > > > > > > us
> > > > > > > > > return null values.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > The implementation uses a simple streaming operator for
> > > executing
> > > > > > most
> > > > > > > of
> > > > > > > > > the operations (for multi get there is an additional merge
> > > > > operator)
> > > > > > > with
> > > > > > > > > either local or partitioned states for storing the
> kev-value
> > > > pairs
> > > > > > (my
> > > > > > > > > current prototype uses local states). And it can either
> > execute
> > > > > > > > operations
> > > > > > > > > eagerly (which would not provide deterministic results), or
> > > > buffer
> > > > > up
> > > > > > > > > operations and execute them in order upon watermarks.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > As for use cases you can probably come up with many I will
> > save
> > > > > that
> > > > > > > for
> > > > > > > > > now :D
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I have a prototype implementation here that can execute the
> > > > > > operations
> > > > > > > > > described above (does not handle watermarks and time yet):
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > https://github.com/gyfora/flink/tree/KVStore
> > > > > > > > > And also an example job:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/gyfora/flink/blob/KVStore/flink-staging/flink-streaming/flink-streaming-core/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/KVStreamExample.java
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > What do you think?
> > > > > > > > > If you like it I will work on writing tests and it still
> > needs
> > > a
> > > > > lot
> > > > > > of
> > > > > > > > > tweaking and refactoring. This might be something we want
> to
> > > > > include
> > > > > > > with
> > > > > > > > > the standard streaming libraries at one point.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > > > > Gyula
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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