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Niel Markwick commented on BEAM-6887:
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https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/11532 changes the defaults for unbounded
sources so that the high-latency grouping operation is disabled by default.
In addition https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/11529 simplifies the pipeline
when there batching is disabled.
Therefore there is no longer a need for a separate SimpleWrite/WriteBulk
This FR sill applies though for having meaningful output for successful
mutations.
> Streaming Spanner Writer transform
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>
> Key: BEAM-6887
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-6887
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: io-java-gcp
> Reporter: Niel Markwick
> Priority: P3
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> At present, the SpannerIO.Write/WriteGrouped transforms work by collecting an
> entire bundle of elements, sorts them by table/key, splitting the sorted list
> into batches (by size and number of cells modified) and then writes each
> batch to Spanner in a single transaction.
> It returns a SpannerWriteResult.java containing :
> # a PCollection<Void> (the main output) - which will have no elements but
> will be closed to signal when all the input elements have been written (which
> is never in streaming because input is unbounded)
> # a PCollection<MutationGroup> of elements that failed to write.
> This transform is useful as a bulk sink for data because it efficiently
> writes large amounts of data.
> It is not at all useful as an intermediate step in a streaming pipeline -
> because it has no useful output in streaming mode.
> I propose that we have a separate Spanner Write transform which simply writes
> each input Mutation to the database, and then pushes successful Mutations
> onto its output.
> This would allow use in the middle of a streaming pipeline, where the flow
> would be
> * Some data streamed in
> * Converted to Spanner Mutations
> * Written to Spanner Database
> * Further processing where the values written to the Spanner Database are
> used.
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