Hi Dawid, Thanks for getting back to me.
And yes, I read "Compression works on the granularity of key-groups in keyed state” as meaning “When compressing keyed state, it’s done per key-group” and not “Compression only works on keyed state” :) I agree that "KeyedState should be preferred in majority of cases”. Unfortunately for a broadcast stream there’s option to used keyed state, right? So assuming that’s the current situation, and I’m not in a position to have my client deploy a patched version of Flink, which of the following (sketchy) ideas has any potential here… 1. Implement a version of HeapBroadcastState that compresses the state, and rely on Flink’s classloader finding it in my jar first. 2. Register a custom compressing serializer for my state’s key class, assuming that will get picked up by the call to stateMetaInfo.getKeySerializer(). Or something else? Thanks! — Ken > On Nov 17, 2022, at 12:06 AM, Dawid Wysakowicz <dwysakow...@apache.org> wrote: > > Cross posting answer from SO: > > BroadcastState is an operator state not a KeyedState. The referenced docs > refer to a KeyedState: > > Compression works on the granularity of key-groups in keyed state, > > Probably docs could be more explicit about this behaviour. > > Unfortunately as far as I know there is no compression for OperatorState. I > am not 100% sure, but I believe it's just has never been implemented, because > we did not want to invest in it, as KeyedState should be preferred in > majority of cases. > > Best, > > Dawid > > On 16/11/2022 23:27, Ken Krugler wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Just posted this question on SO: How to enable compression for Flink >> broadcast state checkpoints >> <https://stackoverflow.com/q/74466988/231762?sem=2> >> Basically it doesn’t look like broadcast state respects the compressed state >> (checkpoints/savepoints) setting, but I might be reading the code wrong. >> >> Hoping someone (like Dawid Wysakowicz) can chime in here, thanks! >> >> — Ken >> >> -------------------------- >> Ken Krugler >> http://www.scaleunlimited.com <http://www.scaleunlimited.com/> >> Custom big data solutions >> Flink, Pinot, Solr, Elasticsearch >> > <OpenPGP_0x31D2DD10BFC15A2D.asc> -------------------------- Ken Krugler http://www.scaleunlimited.com Custom big data solutions Flink, Pinot, Solr, Elasticsearch