Elias Levy created FLINK-4498:
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             Summary: Better Cassandra sink documentation
                 Key: FLINK-4498
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4498
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Documentation
    Affects Versions: 1.1.0
            Reporter: Elias Levy


The Cassandra sink documentation is somewhat muddled and could be improved.  
For instance, the fact that is only supports tuples and POJO's that use 
DataStax Mapper annotations is only mentioned in passing, and it is not clear 
that the reference to tuples only applies to Flink Java tuples and not Scala 
tuples.  

The documentation also does not mention that setQuery() is only necessary for 
tuple streams.  It would be good to have an example of a POJO stream with the 
DataStax annotations.

The explanation of the write ahead log could use some cleaning up to clarify 
when it is appropriate to use, ideally with an example.  Maybe this would be 
best as a blog post to expand on the type of non-deterministic streams this 
applies to.

It would also be useful to mention that tuple elements will be mapped to 
Cassandra columns using the Datastax Java driver's default encoders, which are 
somewhat limited (e.g. to write to a blob column the type in the tuple must be 
a java.nio.ByteBuffer and not just a byte[]).



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