Re: [FlightRPC] Flight fallback mechanism.

2019-12-23 Thread Wes McKinney
hi Vinay, I think these are application-level concerns -- Flight provides an efficient means to transport datasets on a network. The result of a DoGet or DoPut provides an iterator of record batches which generally may not be that big. How you handle the chunks of data in memory (or put them on di

[FlightRPC] Flight fallback mechanism.

2019-12-23 Thread Vinay Kesarwani
Flight is great way to share data among processes, and holding shared data in-memory. I couldn't find any api or design to handle fall back mechanism in case data is not fitting in memory. Cases: 1- Once memory buffer is nearing full, data should spill over to disk. 2- Spilling over disk or memor