Hey Vinoth,

Thanks. Since you mention you do the same at Uber, is there a use for
keeping the log forever?
Or is it just more practical to maintain two tables rather than coordinate
an off-peak slot to run compaction on the read-optimized view?

Rishan

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:05 AM Vinoth Chandar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Roshan,
>
> Good point. Actually the incremental view + either read-optimized/realtime
> view can provide similar functionality.
> However, I think Minh wanted to keep a log forever. When using just a
> single Hudi dataset, once the compactor runs or the cleaning happens, the
> log is compacted away.
> Does that make sense?
>
> Thanks
> Vinoth
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 2:19 AM Roshan Nair (Data Platform)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Minh/Vinoth,
> >
> > I'm curious about what use cases having two tables addresses. I'm
> assuming
> > here the two tables you mention are the read-optimized (COW) table, and
> an
> > uncompacted write optimized (MOR) table.
> >
> > Hudi already provides two views (read-optimized and write-optimized) on
> the
> > same table, so what use cases require splitting this into two different
> > hudi tables?
> >
> > Roshan
> >
> > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 8:58 PM Vinoth Chandar <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for starting the thread, Minh!
> > >
> > > We do the same thing at Uber actually. Its handy to join these two at
> > times
> > > and its a common pattern.
> > > so curious to know what others think?
> > >
> > > DeltaStreamer option seems like a good idea. Some implementation
> > > considerations on how we configure this second table etc..
> > > but we can figure that out on the PR/JIRA.
> > >
> > > >  Can we update both tables transactionally? This would be a nice
> > > property to have. The current 2-job pattern does not support this.
> > > It's achievable with some caveats. For e.g, you can write both to
> > datasets,
> > > then commit the second one only after first one succeeds. If second
> > commit
> > > fails, then we do restore/rollback first one. Note that some queries
> may
> > > have already picked up the first commit changes technically speaking
> > (race
> > > time window will be small). General support for this, needs more work
> and
> > > overlaying timelines etc... You are welcome to take this on if you are
> > > interested. :)
> > >
> > > > Can we share the Avro logs? This might save some time as well
> > > as achieving the transactionality mentioned above but it increases
> > > complexity.
> > > yes. it would change the core models and design a lot. In some cases,
> the
> > > logs may not even be the same across these tables. for e.g, if you take
> > the
> > > HBase data model, you might get new cells out of your change stream,
> > which
> > > is the raw change log . You can have the snapshot/row table have either
> > > cells in the Avro log or full row images, depending on where you want
> to
> > > pay the cost of merge. let me know what you think.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:19 PM Minh Pham <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > A common pattern that I see is having 1 Kafka topic for data change
> > > events
> > > > and 2 Hudi ingestion job (1 in insert mode and 1 in upsert mode).
> This
> > > > creates 2 tables, 1 with all raw data change events and 1 with the
> > latest
> > > > snapshot of data.
> > > >
> > > > What do you guys think about adding support for as an option in
> > > > DeltaStreamer?
> > > >
> > > > There are some complications to consider:
> > > > - Can we update both tables transactionally? This would be a nice
> > > property
> > > > to have. The current 2-job pattern does not support this.
> > > > - Can we share the Avro logs? This might save some time as well as
> > > > achieving the transactionality mentioned above but it increases
> > > complexity.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Minh
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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