Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5465#discussion_r169099355 --- Diff: flink-contrib/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBMapState.java --- @@ -319,6 +321,9 @@ private UV deserializeUserValue(byte[] rawValueBytes) throws IOException { /** The raw bytes of the value stored in RocksDB. */ private byte[] rawValueBytes; + /** The offset of User Key offset in raw key bytes. */ + private final int userKeyOffset; --- End diff -- This value is basically a constant on a per-backend level and we could remember the value in the MapState itself, no need to replicate it into every entry. It can then still be recalled from there for `deserializeUserKey(...)`.
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