Hi Esa, you can certainly read CSV files in parallel. This works very well in a batch query. For streaming queries, that expect data to be ingested in timestamp order this is much more challenging, because you need 1) read the files in the right order and 2) cannot split files (unless you guarantee that splits are read in the right order). The CsvTableSource does not guarantee to read files in timestamp order (it would have to know the timestamps in each file for that).
Having files with different schema is another problem. The SQL / Table API require a fixed schema per table (source). The only recommendation when reading files in parallel for a streaming use case is to implement a custom source function and be careful when generating watermarks. Best, Fabian 2018-05-07 12:44 GMT+02:00 Esa Heikkinen <esa.heikki...@student.tut.fi>: > Hi > > > > I would want to read many different type csv-files (time series data) > parallel using by CsvTableSource. Is that possible in Flink application ? > If yes, are there exist the examples about that ? > > > > If it is not, do you have any advices how to do that ? > > > > Should I combine all csv-files to one csv-file in pre-processing phase ? > But this has little problem, because there are not same type (columns are > different, except timestamp-column). > > > > Best, Esa > > >
