How about something like this,

Store the incoming tuples in the following format:
   TreeMap<TimeStamp, List<Tuples>>

Create a Flusher thread, which periodically flushes the *fristKey*, after
considering the lag.


On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 11:09 AM Munagala Ramanath <[email protected]>
wrote:

> You'll need to have some some limit one how a lag is possible for
> out-of-order messages.
> If that limit is say 30s, then you'll need to buffer tuples for double the
> lag -- 60s.
>
> You can configure the Application Window size suitably to do this.
>
> Ram
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Raja.Aravapalli <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> No aggregation, but I need messages to be played in sequential !!
>>
>>
>> Ex:
>>
>> Below is the way actually msgs should come from my kafka topic
>>
>> msg1 ts1
>> msg2 ts2
>> msg3 ts3
>> msg4 ts4
>> msg5 ts5
>> msg6 ts6
>> msg7 ts7
>>
>>
>> But, due to some network issues I am seeing the messages in kafka topic
>> something like below:
>>
>> msg2 ts2  ==> msg2 which actually should come after msg1, but
>> unfortunately msg2 is coming to kafka before msg1, losing the sequence!!
>> msg1 ts1 ==> delayed by few milli secs to seconds to reach on time!!
>> msg3 ts3
>> msg4 ts4
>> msg5 ts5
>> msg7 ts7 ==> msg7 had come early into topics before msg6
>> msg6 ts6 ==> delayed !!
>>
>>
>> I am losing the order of messages and business logic gives correct
>> results only when msgs played in sequence!!
>>
>> Now if I define windowing/some buffering and then order on timestamp and
>> play msgs…
>>
>> What if window boundary takes
>>
>> msg2 ts2
>> —————— window ends here
>> msg1 ts1
>> msg3 ts3
>> msg4 ts4
>> msg5 ts5
>> msg7 ts7
>> msg6 ts6
>> —————— window ends here
>>
>> Now, if you see, even though I am trying to do buffering and then
>> ordering the msgs based on some timstamp, I still face the problem of msg2
>> already processed before msg1 !! Which I don’t want.
>>
>> Did I really understand windowing correctly…. Pls correct me if I am
>> wrong!! Thanks for your thoughts!!
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Raja.
>>
>> From: Thomas Weise <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 10:51 AM
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: kafka input is processing records in a jumbled order
>>
>> Apex can do stateful processing, you can define a window in which you can
>> reorder the messages. It will have the same effect on latency as
>> "micro-batching".
>>
>> Why is the ordering important? What operations do you perform on the
>> data? Aggregation?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Raja.Aravapalli <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My bad… we observes our source data in kafka topics is not really in a
>>> ordered fashion, where we are seeing the messages with few milli secs
>>> delay.!!
>>>
>>> Source couldn’t ensure the ordering guarantee due to the network!!
>>>
>>> Is there a right way for me from consumer standpoint, I can ensure
>>> ordering ?? Will micro batching work for me here ? Or Does apex support
>>> micro batching and order the messages ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Raja
>>>
>>> From: Thomas Weise <[email protected]>
>>> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 10:59 PM
>>>
>>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: kafka input is processing records in a jumbled order
>>>
>>> Raja,
>>>
>>> Please also confirm how you are using partitioning. If, for example, in
>>> your DAG you shuffle the data received from Kafka in a way that is
>>> different from the original partitioning, then it would be possible that
>>> multiple downstream partitions process data that came from a single Kafka
>>> partition concurrently and therefore in a different order.
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Raja.Aravapalli <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes Devendra.
>>>>
>>>> p1.10 is read before p1.1 !!
>>>>
>>>> Sure I shall check that. Thanks a lot for your response.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Raja.
>>>>
>>>> From: Devendra Tagare <[email protected]>
>>>> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>> Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 7:59 PM
>>>>
>>>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: kafka input is processing records in a jumbled order
>>>>
>>>> Hi Raja,
>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear are you suggesting that p1.10 is being read before
>>>> p1.1 ?
>>>>
>>>> If thats the case can you use a console consumer that comes packed with
>>>> kafka and verify the ordering based on timestamps ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dev
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Raja.Aravapalli <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot Devendra Tagare for the response.
>>>>>
>>>>> What you said is very clear and understandable. But, wondering, I am
>>>>> NOT getting that partition level order!! My operator is processing the
>>>>> records in jumbled order rather than in sequence!
>>>>> And, I am saying this because, I am generating timestamps upon tuple
>>>>> receipt and emitting that timestamp to my destination, which is clearly
>>>>> showing the records are receiving to operator in a shuffled order.
>>>>>
>>>>> I get records at milli second level differences!! Will that be a
>>>>> problem ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Raja.
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Devendra Tagare <[email protected]>
>>>>> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>> Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 7:12 PM
>>>>>
>>>>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>> Subject: Re: kafka input is processing records in a jumbled order
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Raja,
>>>>>
>>>>> When you apply ONE_TO_MANY partitioning scheme, one instance of the
>>>>> operator consumes from many partitions of a kafka topic.
>>>>>
>>>>> When you look at the consumed data, all the events coming from a given
>>>>> partition would be ordered but there are no ordering guarantees across
>>>>> partitions since kafka does not guarantee that
>>>>>
>>>>> eg : If 3 partitions of a topic p1,p2,p3 having 10 messages each are
>>>>> connected to one physical partition of the KafkaInputOperator , then the
>>>>> ordering guarantee of p1.1 to p1.10 is honored.ie message 10 of p1 be
>>>>> consumed only after messages 1 through 9 are consumed but the operator
>>>>> could consumer messages in a order like p1.1,p2.1,p1.2,p1.3,p3.1,p2.2.....
>>>>> which still follows the guarantees per partition.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Dev
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Raja.Aravapalli <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the response Thomas.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My quick doubt is..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have around 30 partitions of kafka topic, And all of them have
>>>>>> messages ordered at partition level.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, when I consume those messages using single consumer[with
>>>>>> ONE_TO_MANY strategy set], still the ordering doesn’t work ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My messages in topic are guaranteed to be ordered at partition level.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks a lot in advance for your response.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Raja.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Thomas Weise <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 5:52 PM
>>>>>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: kafka input is processing records in a jumbled order
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Raja,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you expecting ordering across multiple Kafka partitions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All messages from a given Kafka partition are received by the same
>>>>>> consumer and thus will be ordered. However, when messages come from
>>>>>> multiple partitions there is no such guarantee.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Raja.Aravapalli <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have built a DAG, that reads from kafka and in the next operators,
>>>>>>> does lookup to a hbase table and update hbase table based on some 
>>>>>>> business
>>>>>>> logic.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some times my operator which does hbase lookup and update in the
>>>>>>> same operator(Custom written), is processing the records it receives 
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>> kafka in a jumbled order, which is causing, many records being ignored 
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>> processing!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am not using any parallel partitions/instance, and with
>>>>>>> KafkaInputOperator I am using only partition strategy ONE_TO_MANY.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am very new to Apex. I expected, Apex will guarantee the ordering.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can someone pls share your knowledge on the issue…?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks a lot in advance…
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Raja.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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