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Sophie Blee-Goldman commented on KAFKA-4212:
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Hi [~jamesritt], I think your PR is a good first step towards a TTL KV store
but it's not sufficient to simply expose the rocksdb TTL option. The changelog
topic is the ultimate source of truth for a store, so if you don't somehow
clean up old records there you will just restore all the old and deleted
records on restore/rebalance. One solution might be to somehow store/retrieve
the current time such that after a restore/rebalance you only load "valid"
records (see KAFKA-7934)
(also as a note, Rocks TTL is not "strict" in that is provides a lower, not
upper, bound on how long data will remain in the db)
> Add a key-value store that is a TTL persistent cache
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>
> Key: KAFKA-4212
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4212
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: streams
> Affects Versions: 0.10.0.1
> Reporter: Elias Levy
> Priority: Major
> Labels: api
>
> Some jobs needs to maintain as state a large set of key-values for some
> period of time. I.e. they need to maintain a TTL cache of values potentially
> larger than memory.
> Currently Kafka Streams provides non-windowed and windowed key-value stores.
> Neither is an exact fit to this use case.
> The {{RocksDBStore}}, a {{KeyValueStore}}, stores one value per key as
> required, but does not support expiration. The TTL option of RocksDB is
> explicitly not used.
> The {{RocksDBWindowsStore}}, a {{WindowsStore}}, can expire items via segment
> dropping, but it stores multiple items per key, based on their timestamp.
> But this store can be repurposed as a cache by fetching the items in reverse
> chronological order and returning the first item found.
> KAFKA-2594 introduced a fixed-capacity in-memory LRU caching store, but here
> we desire a variable-capacity memory-overflowing TTL caching store.
> Although {{RocksDBWindowsStore}} can be repurposed as a cache, it would be
> useful to have an official and proper TTL cache API and implementation.
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