Re: Choice of time characteristic and performance

2021-05-25 Thread Bob Tiernay
Thanks for you guidance Robert! Do you think disabling watermarking would help in terms of a slight performance boost in such scenarios? Bob -- Sent from: http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/

Re: Choice of time characteristic and performance

2021-05-22 Thread Robert Metzger
Hi Bob, if you don't need any time characteristics, go with processing time. Ingestion time will call System.currentTimeMillis() on every incoming record, which is an somewhat expensive call. Event time (and ingestion time) will attach a long field to each record, making the records 8 bytes larger

Choice of time characteristic and performance

2021-05-14 Thread Bob Tiernay
I was wondering if the choice of time characteristic (ingestion, processing or event time) makes a difference to the performance of a job that isn't using windowing or process functions. For example, in such a job is it advisable to disable auto wartermarking and use the default? Or is this in comb