Hi Bowen, thanks for your doc! I left some comments on the doc, the main concerning is that it makes me feel like a coupling that the TTL need to depend on `timer`. Because I think the TTL is a property of the state, so it should be backed by the state backend. If we implement the TTL base on the timer, than it looks like a coupling... it makes me feel that the backend for state becomes `state backend` + `timer`. And in fact, IMO, even the `timer` should depend on `state backend` in theroy, it's a type of HeapState that scoped to the `key group`(not scoped to per key like the current keyed state).
And I found the doc is for exact TTL, I wonder if we can support a relax TTL that could provides a better performance. Because to me, the reason that I need TTL is just to prevent the state size growing infinitly(I believe I'm not the only one like this), so a relax version is enough, if there is a relax TTL which have a better performance, I would prefer that. What do you think? Best, Sihua On 05/14/2018 14:31，Bowen Li<bowenl...@gmail.com> wrote： Thank you, Fabian! I've created the FLIP-25 page <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-25%3A+Support+User+State+TTL+Natively> . To continue our discussion points: 1. I see what you mean now. I totally agree. Since we don't completely know it now, shall we experiment or prototype a little bit before deciding this? 2. - 3. Adding tags to timers is an option. Another option I came up with recently, is like this: let *InternalTimerService *maintains user timers and TTL timers separately. Implementation classes of InternalTimerService should add two new collections of timers, e.g. *Ttl*ProcessingTimeTimersQueue and *Ttl*EventTimeTimersQueue for HeapInternalTimerService. Upon InternalTimerService#onProcessingTime() and advanceWatermark(), they will first iterate through ProcessingTimeTimers and EventTimeTimers (user timers) and then through *Ttl*ProcessingTimeTimers and *Ttl*EventTimeTimers (Ttl timers). We'll also add the following new internal APIs to register Ttl timers： ``` @Internal public void registerTtlProcessingTimeTimer(N namespace, long time)； @Internal public void registerTtlEventTimeTimer(N namespace, long time)； ``` The biggest advantage, compared to option 1, is that it doesn't impact existing timer-related checkpoint/savepoint, restore and migrations. What do you think? And, any other Flink committers want to chime in for ideas? I've also documented the above two discussion points to the FLIP page. Thanks, Bowen On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:36 AM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Bowen, 1. The motivation to keep the TTL logic outside of the state backend was mainly to avoid state backend custom implementations. If we have a generic approach that would work for all state backends, we could try to put the logic into a base class like AbstractStateBackend. After all, state cleanup is tightly related to the responsibilities of state backends. 2. - 3. You're right. We should first call the user code before cleaning up. The main problem that I see right now is that we have to distinguish between user and TTL timers. AFAIK, the timer service does not support timer tags (or another method) to distinguish timers. I've given you the permissions to create and edit wiki pages. Best, Fabian 2018-04-30 7:47 GMT+02:00 Bowen Li <bowenl...@gmail.com>: Thanks Fabian! Here're my comments inline, and let me know your thoughts. 1. Where should the TTL code reside? In the state backend or in the operator? I believe TTL code should not reside in state backend, because a critical design is that TTL is independent of and transparent to state backends. According to my current knowledge, I think it probably should live with operators in flink-streaming-java. 2. How to get notified about state accesses? I guess this depends on 1. You previously suggested using callbacks. I believe that's the right way to do decoupling. 3. How to avoid conflicts of TTL timers and user timers? User timers might always be invoked first? This is not urgent, shall we bake it for more time and discuss it along the way? Besides, I don't have access to create a FLIP page under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Flin k+Improvement+Proposals. Can you grant me the proper access? Thanks, Bowen On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:40 AM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Bowen, Thanks for updating the proposal. This looks pretty good (as I said before). There are a few areas, that are not yet fully fleshed out: 1. Where should the TTL code reside? In the state backend or in the operator? 2. How to get notified about state accesses? I guess this depends on 1. 3. How to avoid conflicts of TTL timers and user timers? @Stefan (in CC) might have some ideas on these issues as well. Cheers, Fabian 2018-04-22 21:14 GMT+02:00 Bowen <bowenl...@gmail.com>: Hello community, We've come up with a completely new design for Flink state TTL, documented here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PPwHMDHGWMOO8YGv08BNi8Fqe_h7SjeALRzmW-ZxSfY/edit?usp=sharing>, and have run it by a few Flink PMC/committers. What do you think? We'd love to hear feedbacks from you Thanks, Bowen On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 12:53 PM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Bowen, Thanks for the proposal! I think state TTL would be a great feature! Actually, we have implemented this for SQL / Table API [1]. I've added a couple of comments to the design doc. In principle, I'm not sure if this functionality should be added to the state backends. We could also use the existing timer service which would have a few nice benefits (see my comments in the docs). Best, Fabian [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.4/ dev/table/streaming.html#idle-state-retention-time 2018-02-06 8:26 GMT+01:00 Bowen Li <bowenl...@gmail.com>: Hi guys, I want to propose a new FLIP -- FLIP-25 - Support User State TTL Natively in Flink. This has been one of most handy and most frequently asked features in Flink community. The jira ticket is FLINK-3089 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3089>. I've written a rough design <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qiFqtCC80n4oFmmfxBWXrCd37mYKc uureyEr_nPAvSo/edit#> doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qiFqtCC80n4oFmmfxBWXrCd37mYKc uureyEr_nPAvSo/edit#>, and developed prototypes for both heap and rocksdb state backends. My question is: shall we create a FLIP page for this? Can I be granted the privileges of creating pages in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/ Flink+Improvement+Proposals ? Thanks, Bowen
