Re: Storage options for RocksDBStateBackend

2017-05-15 Thread Jain, Ankit
user Subject: Re: Storage options for RocksDBStateBackend Till and Stephan, thanks for your clarification. @Till One more question, from what I have read about the checkpointing [1], the list operations don't seem likely to be performed frequently, so storing state backend on s3 shouldn't h

Re: Storage options for RocksDBStateBackend

2017-05-11 Thread Ayush Goyal
Till and Stephan, thanks for your clarification. @Till One more question, from what I have read about the checkpointing [1], the list operations don't seem likely to be performed frequently, so storing state backend on s3 shouldn't have any severe impact on flink performance. Is this assumption ri

Re: Storage options for RocksDBStateBackend

2017-05-11 Thread Stephan Ewen
Small addition to Till's comment: In the case where file:// points to a mounted distributed file system (NFS, MapRFs, ...), then it actually works. The important thing is that the filesystem where the checkpoints go is replicated (fault tolerant) and accessible from all nodes. On Thu, May 11, 201

Re: Storage options for RocksDBStateBackend

2017-05-11 Thread Till Rohrmann
Hi Ayush, you’re right that RocksDB is the recommend state backend because of the above-mentioned reasons. In order to make the recovery properly work, you have to configure a shared directory for the checkpoint data via state.backend.fs.checkpointdir. You can basically configure any file system w

Storage options for RocksDBStateBackend

2017-05-11 Thread Ayush Goyal
Hello, I had a few questions regarding checkpoint storage options using RocksDBStateBackend. In the flink 1.2 documentation, it is the recommended state backend due to it's ability to store large states and asynchronous snapshotting. For high availabilty it seems HDFS is the recommended store for

Storage options for RocksDBStateBackend

2017-05-11 Thread ayush
use a NFS volume for state backend, with "file://" urls? Will there be any performance impact? -- Ayush -- View this message in context: http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Storage-options-for-RocksDBStateBackend-tp13102.html Sent from the Apache Fli