Matthias J. Sax created KAFKA-4731: -------------------------------------- Summary: Add event-based session windows Key: KAFKA-4731 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4731 Project: Kafka Issue Type: New Feature Components: streams Reporter: Matthias J. Sax Priority: Minor
Kafka Streams allows to define session windows based on an time-based inactivity gap. This can be used for _session detection_. However, some data streams do contain event like "start session" and "end session" to mark the begin and end of a session. For this use case, it is not required to _detect_ session because session boundaries are known and not based on time -- but on events. This Jira is about adding support for those event-based session windows. To add this feature, a KIP (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals) is required to discuss the proposed design. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)