Even if the request time to HBase is just a couple of milliseconds this will add up and the elements sitting in the buffer between the map and flatMap will have high perceived latency, yes.
> On 28. Jun 2017, at 16:54, sohimankotia <sohimanko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I had same concern regarding HBase . So I also added metric to measure Hbase > op time in flatmap (Basically complete flatmap op). > > From metrics I see that aprox 96 % time op time was under 1 sec. (Still I > can do a dummy run without HBase op . But did these timing make sense?) > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Partitioner-is-spending-around-2-to-4-minutes-while-pushing-data-to-next-operator-tp13913p14040.html > Sent from the Apache Flink User Mailing List archive. mailing list archive at > Nabble.com.