Thanks Abid for driving. +1 for this.
Can you open the permissions for https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WC8xkPiVdwtsKL2VSPAUgzm9EjrPs8ZRjEtcwv93ISI/edit?usp=sharing ? Best, Jingsong On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 9:22 AM Abid Mohammed <abmo.w...@icloud.com.invalid> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to start a discussion about contributing Iceberg Flink Connector > to Flink. > > I created a doc > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WC8xkPiVdwtsKL2VSPAUgzm9EjrPs8ZRjEtcwv93ISI/edit?usp=sharing> > with all the details following the Flink Connector template as I don’t have > permissions to create a FLIP yet. > High level details are captured below: > > Motivation: > > This FLIP aims to contribute the existing Apache Iceberg Flink Connector to > Flink. > > Apache Iceberg is an open table format for huge analytic datasets. Iceberg > adds tables to compute engines including Spark, Trino, PrestoDB, Flink, Hive > and Impala using a high-performance table format that works just like a SQL > table. > Iceberg avoids unpleasant surprises. Schema evolution works and won’t > inadvertently un-delete data. Users don’t need to know about partitioning to > get fast queries. Iceberg was designed to solve correctness problems in > eventually-consistent cloud object stores. > > Iceberg supports both Flink’s DataStream API and Table API. Based on the > guideline of the Flink community, only the latest 2 minor versions are > actively maintained. See the Multi-Engine Support#apache-flink for further > details. > > > Iceberg connector supports: > > • Source: detailed Source design > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q6xaBxUPFwYsW9aXWxYUh7die6O7rDeAPFQcTAMQ0GM/edit#>, > based on FLIP-27 > • Sink: detailed Sink design and interfaces used > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O-dPaFct59wUWQECXEEYIkl9_MOoG3zTbC2V-fZRwrg/edit#> > • Usable in both DataStream and Table API/SQL > • DataStream read/append/overwrite > • SQL create/alter/drop table, select, insert into, insert overwrite > • Streaming or batch read in Java API > • Support for Flink’s Python API > > See Iceberg Flink <https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/latest/flink/#flink>for > detailed usage instructions. > > Looking forward to the discussion! > > Thanks > Abid
