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Jun Rao commented on KAFKA-631:
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Prashanth,
Will you be interested in KAFKA-330 (delete topic)? I added some comments on
how to approach this.
> Implement log compaction
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> Key: KAFKA-631
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-631
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: 0.8.1
> Reporter: Jay Kreps
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> Currently Kafka has only one way to bound the space of the log, namely by
> deleting old segments. The policy that controls which segments are deleted
> can be configured based either on the number of bytes to retain or the age of
> the messages. This makes sense for event or log data which has no notion of
> primary key. However lots of data has a primary key and consists of updates
> by primary key. For this data it would be nice to be able to ensure that the
> log contained at least the last version of every key.
> As an example, say that the Kafka topic contains a sequence of User Account
> messages, each capturing the current state of a given user account. Rather
> than simply discarding old segments, since the set of user accounts is
> finite, it might make more sense to delete individual records that have been
> made obsolete by a more recent update for the same key. This would ensure
> that the topic contained at least the current state of each record.
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