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Geoffry Sumter commented on SAMZA-552:
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I think 1 is the simplest answer, it's very elegant if your state fits that
model.
My personal counter-example is a join in physical space where multiple points
can (as a weighted average) contribute to a final output point. In this case
it's highly desirable to avoid smoothing even twice, so smoothing every time a
new bit of contributing data arrives would be very undesirable.
> Tuple or time window semantics in physical operator
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>
> Key: SAMZA-552
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-552
> Project: Samza
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: sql
> Affects Versions: 0.9.0
> Reporter: Yi Pan (Data Infrastructure)
> Assignee: Yi Pan (Data Infrastructure)
> Attachments: DESIGN-SAMZA-552-3.md, DESIGN-SAMZA-552-3.pdf
>
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> The discussion is based on how to support tuple and/or time based window
> operators in Samza physical operator layer.
> Here are the few observations:
> # Tuple represents the “physical ordering” of events while time-based window
> has semantic meanings to users
> # Total ordering between tuples are possible within Samza/Kafka given a
> deterministic MessageSelector on all input streams and offsets within each
> stream
> # No matter whether tuple or time is used to measure the window size, the
> window termination condition is needed to close a window to avoid the job to
> be wedged forever
> The following questions have to be answered to fully implement a window
> operator:
> # how to determine that a window is closed and no new tuples will be added?
> ## For tuple based, how do we close the window if messages do not come or get
> delayed?
> ## For time based, how do we close the window if
> ### the messages are not strictly in order w/ the time?
> ### the message w/ timestamp greater than the window boundary does not come
> or gets delayed?
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