Re: using kafka log compaction withour key

2017-01-30 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
The log compaction functionality uses the key to determine which records to deduplicate. You can think of it (very roughly) as deleting entries from a hash map as the value for each key is overwritten. This functionality doesn't have much of a point unless you include keys in your records. -Ewen

using kafka log compaction withour key

2017-01-26 Thread Samy CHBINOU
Hello, Is is possible to use log compaction without key? I think in that case buffer will contain only one line of data value? Is that correct? thanks