Hi Ivan, My expectation would be that programs written for the Python API would be much slower than when implementing with Java or Scala. A performance comparison would be quite interesting. Gelly has both iterative and non-iterative algorithms.
Greg On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Ivan Mushketyk <ivan.mushke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chesnay, > > Thank you for you repply. > Out of curiosity, do you know why Python API reception was *tumbleweed*? > > Regarding the Python API, do you know what specifically should be done > there? I have some Python background so I was considering to contribute, > but I didn't find much tasks in the "Python" component: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1926?jql= > project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%22Python% > 20API%22%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20ORDER% > 20BY%20due%20ASC%2C%20priority%20DESC%2C%20created%20ASC > > Best regards, > Ivan. > > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 at 22:45 Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I would say no, as the general reception of the Python API was > > *tumbleweed* so far. > > > > In my opinion this would just lead to a massive increase in code to > > maintain; we would need at least 2-3 active long-term python > contributors. > > Especially so since ML, CEP and Table are afaik still in heavy > development. > > > > If anything, before thinking about porting the libraries to python it > > would make more sense to implement a python streaming API. > > Or maybe /finish/ porting the DataSet API... > > > > Regards, > > Chesnay > > > > On 19.08.2016 22:07, Ivan Mushketyk wrote: > > > Hi Flink developers, > > > > > > It seems to me that Flink has two important "selling points": > > > > > > 1. It has Java, Scala and Python APIs > > > 2. I has a number of useful libraries (ML, Gelly, CEP, and Table) > > > > > > But as far as I understand, currently users cannot use any of these > > > libraries using a Python API. It seems to be a gap worth filling. > > > > > > What do you think about it? Does it make sense to add > CEP/Gelly/ML/Table > > > Python APIs? > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Ivan. > > > > > > > >
