MOHIL created BEAM-10019:
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Summary: Keeping keys in a state for a very long time (keys expiry
unknown)
Key: BEAM-10019
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-10019
Project: Beam
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: website
Reporter: MOHIL
I have a use case which I think might be a good addition to the pipelines
patterns:
beam (java sdk) reads two kind of records from data stream like Kafka:
1. Records of type A containing key and corresponding metadata.
2. Records of type B containing the same key, but no metadata. Beam then needs
to fill metadata for records of type B by doing a lookup for metadata using
keys received in records of type A.
Idea is to save metadata or rather state for keys received in records of type A
and then do a lookup when records of type B are received.
Beam's "@State" construct can be used here, however, problem is that we don't
know when keys should expire. I don't think keeping a global window will be a
good idea as there could be many keys (may be millions over a period of time)
to be saved in a state.
One possible solution as suggested by Reza Ardeshir Rokni (raro...@gmail.com):
We can maintain a state in a large fixed window (1 day or so), so that GC can
happen within a window bound. After window expire, save the metadata values in
an external DB like BigQuery. If we get a record with same key in a new window
looking for this metadata, fetch the metadata for that key from external DB and
save it in window's state again.
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