Paris Carbone created FLINK-1284: ------------------------------------ Summary: Uniform random sampling operator over windows Key: FLINK-1284 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1284 Project: Flink Issue Type: New Feature Components: Streaming Reporter: Paris Carbone Priority: Minor
It would be useful for several use cases to have a built-in uniform random sampling operator in the streaming API that can operate on windows. This can be used for example for online machine learning operations, evaluating heuristics or continuous visualisation of representative values. The operator could be given a field and a number of random samples needed, following a window statement as such: mystream.window(..).sample(fieldID,#samples) Given that pre-aggregation is enabled, this could perhaps be implemented as a binary reduce operator or a combinable groupreduce that pre-aggregates the empiricals of that field. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)