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Elias Levy commented on KAFKA-4120:
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{{o.a.k.common.utils.Bytes}} is not a documented class.
> byte[] keys in RocksDB state stores do not work as expected
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> Key: KAFKA-4120
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4120
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: streams
> Affects Versions: 0.10.0.1
> Reporter: Greg Fodor
> Assignee: Guozhang Wang
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> We ran into an issue using a byte[] key in a RocksDB state store (with the
> byte array serde.) Internally, the RocksDB store keeps a LRUCache that is
> backed by a LinkedHashMap that sits between the callers and the actual db.
> The problem is that while the underlying rocks db will persist byte arrays
> with equal data as equivalent keys, the LinkedHashMap uses byte[] reference
> equality from Object.equals/hashcode. So, this can result in multiple entries
> in the cache for two different byte arrays that have the same contents and
> are backed by the same key in the db, resulting in unexpected behavior.
> One such behavior that manifests from this is if you store a value in the
> state store with a specific key, if you re-read that key with the same byte
> array you will get the new value, but if you re-read that key with a
> different byte array with the same bytes, you will get a stale value until
> the db is flushed. (This made it particularly tricky to track down what was
> happening :))
> The workaround for us is to convert the keys from raw byte arrays to a
> deserialized avro structure that provides proper hashcode/equals semantics
> for the intermediate cache. In general this seems like good practice, so one
> of the proposed solutions is to simply emit a warning or exception if a key
> type with breaking semantics like this is provided.
> A few proposed solutions:
> - When the state store is defined on array keys, ensure that the cache map
> does proper comparisons on array values not array references. This would fix
> this problem, but seems a bit strange to special case. However, I have a hard
> time of thinking of other examples where this behavior would burn users.
> - Change the LRU cache to deserialize and serialize all keys to bytes and use
> a value based comparison for the map. This would be the most correct, as it
> would ensure that both the rocks db and the cache have identical key spaces
> and equality/hashing semantics. However, this is probably slow, and since the
> general case of using avro record types as keys works fine, it will largely
> be unnecessary overhead.
> - Don't change anything about the behavior, but trigger a warning in the log
> or fail to start if a state store is defined on array keys (or possibly any
> key type that fails to properly override Object.equals/hashcode.)
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