Github user gyfora commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2345 Some of the benefits we lose on restore. Especially for very large states this can be pretty serious. Maybe this is required for the sharding to some extent but I don't see this as completely straightforward, in terms of which one is better in production.
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