Hi Fabian, I just want to make sure there is no misunderstanding. So what I've understood from your response is that regardless table source is KafkaTable or not we need to provide static schema. Best, Nihat
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:50 AM Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Nihat, at the current state, Flink's SQL and Table APIs require a static schema. You could use an JSON object as value and implement scalar functions to extract fields, but that would not be very usable. Best, Fabian 2017-01-19 2:59 GMT+01:00 Nihat Hosgur <nhos...@gmail.com>: Hi there, We are evaluating flink SQL to understand if it would be a better fit instead of Spark. So far we loved how natural it is to consume streams on Flink. We do read bunch of Kafka topics and like to join those streams and eventually run some SQL queries. We've used Kafka tables yet if I'm not mistaken we must provide the schema up front. However on many use cases of ours we don't have schema information available up front to us. With spark we didn't have to have the schema. I wonder if it is doable with Flink if so any reference or even some sample code would be appreciated. Thanks, Nihat -- Thanks, Nihat -- Thanks, Nihat
