Bill Warshaw created KAFKA-3224:
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Summary: Add timestamp-based log deletion policy
Key: KAFKA-3224
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3224
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Bill Warshaw
One of Kafka's officially-described use cases is a distributed commit log
(http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#uses_commitlog). In this case, for
a distributed service that needed a commit log, there would be a topic with a
single partition to guarantee log order. This service would use the commit log
to re-sync failed nodes. Kafka is generally an excellent fit for such a system,
but it does not expose an adequate mechanism for log cleanup in such a case.
With a distributed commit log, data can only be deleted when the client
application determines that it is no longer needed; this creates completely
arbitrary ranges of time and size for messages, which the existing cleanup
mechanisms can't handle smoothly.
A new deletion policy based on the absolute timestamp of a message would work
perfectly for this case. The client application will periodically update the
minimum timestamp of messages to retain, and Kafka will delete all messages
earlier than that timestamp using the existing log cleaner thread mechanism.
This is based off of the work being done in KIP-32 - Add timestamps to Kafka
message.
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