Using RocksDB State Backend in Apache Flink: When and How
Source :
flink.apache.org
Author :
Jun Qin
To best understand state and state backends in Flink, it’s important to distinguish between in-flight state and state snapshots. In-flight state, also known as working state, is the state a Flink job is working on. It is always stored locally in memory (with the possibility to spill to disk) and can be lost when jobs fail without impacting job recoverability. State snapshots, i.e., checkpoints and savepoints, are stored in a remote durable storage, and are used to restore the local state
