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Fokko Driesprong updated FLINK-9749:
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    Description: 
The BucketingSink has a series of deficits at the moment.

Due to the long list of issues, I would suggest to add a new StreamingFileSink 
with a new and cleaner design
h3. Encoders, Parquet, ORC
 - It only efficiently supports row-wise data formats (avro, json, sequence 
files).
 - Efforts to add (columnar) compression for blocks of data is inefficient, 
because blocks cannot span checkpoints due to persistence-on-checkpoint.
 - The encoders are part of the {{flink-connector-filesystem project}}, rather 
than in orthogonal formats projects. This blows up the dependencies of the 
{{flink-connector-filesystem project}} project. As an example, the rolling file 
sink has dependencies on Hadoop and Avro, which messes up dependency management.

h3. Use of FileSystems
 - The BucketingSink works only on Hadoop's FileSystem abstraction not support 
Flink's own FileSystem abstraction and cannot work with the packaged S3, 
maprfs, and swift file systems
 - The sink hence needs Hadoop as a dependency
 - The sink relies on "trying out" whether truncation works, which requires 
write access to the users working directory
 - The sink relies on enumerating and counting files, rather than maintaining 
its own state, making less efficient

h3. Correctness and Efficiency on S3
 - The BucketingSink relies on strong consistency in the file enumeration, 
hence may work incorrectly on S3.
 - The BucketingSink relies on persisting streams at intermediate points. This 
is not working properly on S3, hence there may be data loss on S3.

h3. .valid-length companion file
 - The valid length file makes it hard for consumers of the data and should be 
dropped

We track this design in a series of sub issues.

  was:
The BucketingSink has a series of deficits at the moment.

Due to the long list of issues, I would suggest to add a new StreamingFileSink 
with a new and cleaner design

h3. Encoders, Parquet, ORC

 - It only efficiently supports row-wise data formats (avro, jso, sequence 
files.
 - Efforts to add (columnar) compression for blocks of data is inefficient, 
because blocks cannot span checkpoints due to persistence-on-checkpoint.
 - The encoders are part of the \{{flink-connector-filesystem project}}, rather 
than in orthogonal formats projects. This blows up the dependencies of the 
\{{flink-connector-filesystem project}} project. As an example, the rolling 
file sink has dependencies on Hadoop and Avro, which messes up dependency 
management.

h3. Use of FileSystems

 - The BucketingSink works only on Hadoop's FileSystem abstraction not support 
Flink's own FileSystem abstraction and cannot work with the packaged S3, 
maprfs, and swift file systems
 - The sink hence needs Hadoop as a dependency
 - The sink relies on "trying out" whether truncation works, which requires 
write access to the users working directory
 - The sink relies on enumerating and counting files, rather than maintaining 
its own state, making less efficient

h3. Correctness and Efficiency on S3
 - The BucketingSink relies on strong consistency in the file enumeration, 
hence may work incorrectly on S3.
 - The BucketingSink relies on persisting streams at intermediate points. This 
is not working properly on S3, hence there may be data loss on S3.

h3. .valid-length companion file
 - The valid length file makes it hard for consumers of the data and should be 
dropped


We track this design in a series of sub issues.


> Rework Bucketing Sink
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-9749
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9749
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Connectors / FileSystem
>            Reporter: Stephan Ewen
>            Assignee: Kostas Kloudas
>            Priority: Major
>
> The BucketingSink has a series of deficits at the moment.
> Due to the long list of issues, I would suggest to add a new 
> StreamingFileSink with a new and cleaner design
> h3. Encoders, Parquet, ORC
>  - It only efficiently supports row-wise data formats (avro, json, sequence 
> files).
>  - Efforts to add (columnar) compression for blocks of data is inefficient, 
> because blocks cannot span checkpoints due to persistence-on-checkpoint.
>  - The encoders are part of the {{flink-connector-filesystem project}}, 
> rather than in orthogonal formats projects. This blows up the dependencies of 
> the {{flink-connector-filesystem project}} project. As an example, the 
> rolling file sink has dependencies on Hadoop and Avro, which messes up 
> dependency management.
> h3. Use of FileSystems
>  - The BucketingSink works only on Hadoop's FileSystem abstraction not 
> support Flink's own FileSystem abstraction and cannot work with the packaged 
> S3, maprfs, and swift file systems
>  - The sink hence needs Hadoop as a dependency
>  - The sink relies on "trying out" whether truncation works, which requires 
> write access to the users working directory
>  - The sink relies on enumerating and counting files, rather than maintaining 
> its own state, making less efficient
> h3. Correctness and Efficiency on S3
>  - The BucketingSink relies on strong consistency in the file enumeration, 
> hence may work incorrectly on S3.
>  - The BucketingSink relies on persisting streams at intermediate points. 
> This is not working properly on S3, hence there may be data loss on S3.
> h3. .valid-length companion file
>  - The valid length file makes it hard for consumers of the data and should 
> be dropped
> We track this design in a series of sub issues.



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