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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-5544:
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Github user bowenli86 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3359
@shixiaogang Sounds nice! Can you please open a PR if possible? Thanks!
> Implement Internal Timer Service in RocksDB
> -------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-5544
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5544
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: State Backends, Checkpointing
> Reporter: Xiaogang Shi
> Assignee: Xiaogang Shi
>
> Now the only implementation of internal timer service is
> HeapInternalTimerService which stores all timers in memory. In the cases
> where the number of keys is very large, the timer service will cost too much
> memory. A implementation which stores timers in RocksDB seems good to deal
> with these cases.
> It might be a little challenging to implement a RocksDB timer service because
> the timers are accessed in different ways. When timers are triggered, we need
> to access timers in the order of timestamp. But when performing checkpoints,
> we must have a method to obtain all timers of a given key group.
> A good implementation, as suggested by [~StephanEwen], follows the idea of
> merge sorting. We can store timers in RocksDB with the format
> {{KEY_GROUP#TIMER#KEY}}. In this way, the timers under a key group are put
> together and are sorted.
> Then we can deploy an in-memory heap which keeps the first timer of each key
> group to get the next timer to trigger. When a key group's first timer is
> updated, we can efficiently update the heap.
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