Xiaowen Sun created FLINK-36431:
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Summary: Enhancing Flink History Server File Storage and Retrieval
with RocksDB
Key: FLINK-36431
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-36431
Project: Flink
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Runtime / State Backends
Affects Versions: 1.20.0
Reporter: Xiaowen Sun
Currently, when a Flink job finishes, it writes an archive as a single file
that maps paths to JSON files. Flink History Server (FHS) job archives are
pulled locally where the FHS is running on, and this process creates a local
directory that expands based on the contents of the single archive file.
Because of how the FHS stores the files, there are a large number of
directories created in the local file system. This system can become
inefficient and slow as the volume of job archives increases, creating
bottlenecks in job data navigation and retrieval.
To illustrate the problem of inode usage, let’s consider a scenario where there
are 5000 subtasks. Each subtask creates its own directory, and within each
subtask directory, there are additional directories that might store only a
single file. This structure rapidly increases the number of inodes consumed.
Integrating RocksDB, a high-performance embedded database for key-value data,
aims to resolve these issues by offering faster data access and better
scalability. This integration is expected to significantly enhance the
operational efficiency of FHS by allowing faster data retrieval and enabling a
larger cache on local Kubernetes deployments, thus overcoming inode limitations
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