Hi Martin, I will try to reply to your questions inline:
> On Nov 10, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Martin Eden <martineden...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Our team is looking at replacing Redis with Flink's own queryable state > mechanism. However our clients are using python. > > 1. Is there a python integration with the Flink queryable state mechanism? > Cannot seem to be able to find one. There is no Python API for queryable state. Currently only Java is supported. > 2. If not, is it on the roadmap? I am not aware of any efforts towards that direction, although there are discussions about porting queryable state to REST, so that more clients (in any language) can be written. > > 3. Our current solution is to write a Java RPC proxy and query that from > python. The whole point of using queryable state was to get rid of an extra > service (Redis) but now it seems we need to add another one. Is there an > easier way to call queryable state from Python without requiring an extra > service? Unfortunately for now I am not aware of any easier way to do so. > > 4. Is queryable state used in production by anyone? Can anyone share numbers, > experiences, case studies? Queryable state is currently under heavy development. So APIs may change and features may be added. For queryable state users, I would recommend checking out the talks in previous Flink Forward editions. They are all on-line. > > 5. What is the direction that queryable state is going in for the next Flink > release? Features, api? The next release is going to come soon (it is currently under testing), so you can already have a look on how Queryable State is going to look like if you check out the current release-1.4 branch of Flink on GitHub. > > 6. Is the Flink queryable state going to be supported/developed going forward > with the advent of Pravega which has caching like capabilities as well? For this I am cc’ing Stephan. Probably he is more informed. Hope this helps, Kostas > Thanks, > M