Github user alpinegizmo commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4011#discussion_r119344251
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@@ -138,6 +138,22 @@ Unfortunately, RocksDB's performance can vary with
configuration, and there is l
RocksDB properly. For example, the default configuration is tailored
towards SSDs and performs suboptimal
on spinning disks.
+**Incremental Checkpoints**
+
+Incremental checkpoints can dramatically reduce the checkpointing time in
comparison to full checkpoints, at the cost of a (potentially) longer
+recovery time. The core idea is that incremental checkpoints only record
all changes to the previous completed checkpoint, instead of
+producing a full, self-contained backups of the backend. Like this,
incremental checkpoints build upon previous checkpoints. Flink leverages
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a full, self-contained backup of the state backend
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