DanielLeens commented on issue #11304:
URL: https://github.com/apache/seatunnel/issues/11304#issuecomment-4880124928

   This is an interesting direction, but it needs to be evaluated as a larger 
design topic rather than as a normal connector request.
   
   The strongest part of the proposal is the problem framing: SeaTunnel is 
naturally much stronger at the data-movement and lifecycle side of agent memory 
than at the agent runtime side. The hard part is scope and abstraction 
boundaries. Right now the proposal still combines several different problem 
families:
   1. memory hydration / backfill
   2. CDC freshness and invalidation
   3. deletion / compliance propagation
   4. archiving / analytics export
   5. backend migration / backup
   
   Those are related, but they do not necessarily need one shared abstraction 
in the first step. Before this can become a strong STIP-style discussion, it 
would help to narrow the phase-1 target and make these parts explicit:
   - which concrete memory backend should be the first integration target
   - whether phase 1 is source -> memory sync, memory -> lakehouse export, or 
delete propagation, instead of all of them together
   - what reusable contract would live in SeaTunnel itself versus what stays 
connector-specific
   - compatibility impact on existing connector APIs, config options, and 
engine behavior
   - dependency and licensing expectations for any memory-backend SDKs
   
   A good next step would be to turn this into a smaller MVP proposal, for 
example:
   1. one concrete backend
   2. one direction of data flow
   3. one small set of operations, such as upsert + delete
   4. one validation plan with docs and examples
   
   If you can refine the scope that way, this can become a much stronger design 
discussion for the community.
   


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