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Reynold Xin commented on SPARK-20928:
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OK got it - you are basically saying if we can send the offset associated with 
each record to the sink, then the sink can potentially implement some sort of 
dedup to guarantee idempotency. For most sinks this probably won't work, but if 
a particular sink offers a way to do it, then end-to-end exactly once can be 
accomplished.



> Continuous Processing Mode for Structured Streaming
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-20928
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-20928
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Structured Streaming
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.0
>            Reporter: Michael Armbrust
>              Labels: SPIP
>
> Given the current Source API, the minimum possible latency for any record is 
> bounded by the amount of time that it takes to launch a task.  This 
> limitation is a result of the fact that {{getBatch}} requires us to know both 
> the starting and the ending offset, before any tasks are launched.  In the 
> worst case, the end-to-end latency is actually closer to the average batch 
> time + task launching time.
> For applications where latency is more important than exactly-once output 
> however, it would be useful if processing could happen continuously.  This 
> would allow us to achieve fully pipelined reading and writing from sources 
> such as Kafka.  This kind of architecture would make it possible to process 
> records with end-to-end latencies on the order of 1 ms, rather than the 
> 10-100ms that is possible today.
> One possible architecture here would be to change the Source API to look like 
> the following rough sketch:
> {code}
>   trait Epoch {
>     def data: DataFrame
>     /** The exclusive starting position for `data`. */
>     def startOffset: Offset
>     /** The inclusive ending position for `data`.  Incrementally updated 
> during processing, but not complete until execution of the query plan in 
> `data` is finished. */
>     def endOffset: Offset
>   }
>   def getBatch(startOffset: Option[Offset], endOffset: Option[Offset], 
> limits: Limits): Epoch
> {code}
> The above would allow us to build an alternative implementation of 
> {{StreamExecution}} that processes continuously with much lower latency and 
> only stops processing when needing to reconfigure the stream (either due to a 
> failure or a user requested change in parallelism.



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