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Xuefu Zhang edited comment on FLINK-10618 at 10/31/18 10:21 PM:
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Here is the link to the design doc, which covers this JIRA as well: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SkppRD_rE3uOKSN-LuZCqn4f7dz0zW5aa6T_hBZq5_o/edit?usp=sharing.
 The doc is attached its parent JIRA FLINK-10744.


was (Author: xuefuz):
Here is the link to the design doc, which covers this JIRA as well: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SkppRD_rE3uOKSN-LuZCqn4f7dz0zW5aa6T_hBZq5_o/edit?usp=sharing.
 The doc was attached to FLINK-10556.

> Introduce catalog for Flink tables
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-10618
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10618
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: SQL Client
>    Affects Versions: 1.6.1
>            Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
>            Assignee: Xuefu Zhang
>            Priority: Major
>
> Besides meta objects such as tables that may come from an 
> {{ExternalCatalog}}, Flink also deals with tables/views/functions that are 
> created on the fly (in memory), or specified in a configuration file. Those 
> objects don't belong to any {{ExternalCatalog}}, yet Flink either stores them 
> in memory, which are non-persistent, or recreates them from a file, which is 
> a big pain for the user. Those objects are only known to Flink but Flink has 
> a poor management for them.
> Since they are typical objects in a database catalog, it's natural to have a 
> catalog that manages those objects. The interface will be similar to 
> {{ExternalCatalog}}, which contains meta objects that are not managed by 
> Flink. There are several possible implementations of the Flink internal 
> catalog interface: memory, file, external registry (such as confluent schema 
> registry or Hive metastore), and relational database, etc. 
> The initial functionality as well as the catalog hierarchy could be very 
> simple. The basic functionality of the catalog will be mostly create, alter, 
> and drop tables, views, functions, etc. Obviously, this can evolve over the 
> time.
> We plan to provide implementations with memory, file, and Hive metastore, and 
> will be plugged in at SQL-Client layer.
> Please provide your feedback.



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