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Flink connector

Flink connector

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User guide:

Naming format of the JAR file:

  • Flink 1.15 and later: flink-connector-starrocks-${connector_version}_flink-${flink_version}.jar
  • Prior to Flink 1.15: flink-connector-starrocks-${connector_version}_flink-${flink_version}_${scala_version}.jar

Methods to obtain the JAR file:

  • Directly download the the Flink connector JAR file from the Maven Central Repository.
  • Add the Flink connector as a dependency in your Maven project's pom.xml file and download it. For specific instructions, see user guide.
  • Compile the source codes into Flink connector JAR file. For specific instructions, see user guide.

Version requirements:

Connector

Flink

StarRocks

Java

Scala

1.2.8

1.13,1.14,1.15,1.16,1.17

2.1 and later

8

2.11,2.12

1.2.7

1.11,1.12,1.13,1.14,1.15

2.1 and later

8

2.11,2.12

NOTICE

In general, the latest version of the Flink connector only maintains compatibility with the three most recent versions of Flink.

Release note​

1.2​

1.2.8

This release includes some improvements and bug fixes. The notable changes are as follows:

  • Support Flink 1.16 and 1.17.
  • Recommend to set sink.label-prefix when the sink is configured to guarantee the exactly-once semantics. For the specific instructions, see Exactly Once.

Improvements

  • Support to configure whether to use Stream Load transaction interface to guarantee at-least-once. #228
  • Add retry metrics for sink V1. #229
  • No need to getLabelState when EXISTING_JOB_STATUS is FINISHED. #231
  • Remove useless stack trace log for sink V1. #232
  • [Refactor] Move StarRocksSinkManagerV2 to stream-load-sdk. #233
  • Automatically detect partial updates according to a Flink table's schema instead of the sink.properties.columns parameter explicitly specified by users. #235
  • [Refactor] Move probeTransactionStreamLoad to stream-load-sdk. #240
  • Add git-commit-id-plugin for stream-load-sdk. #242
  • Use info log for DefaultStreamLoader#close. #243
  • Support to generate stream-load-sdk JAR file without dependencies. #245
  • Replace fastjson with jackson in stream-load-sdk. #247
  • Support to process update_before record. #250
  • Add the Apache license into files. #251
  • Support to get the exception in stream-load-sdk. #252
  • Enable strip_outer_array and ignore_json_size by default. #259
  • Try to cleanup lingering transactions when a Flink job restores and the sink semantics is exactly-once. #271
  • Return the first exception after the retrying fails. #279

Bug Fixes

  • Fix typos in StarRocksStreamLoadVisitor. #230
  • Fix the fastjson classloader leak. #260

Tests

  • Add the test framework for loading from Kafka to StarRocks. #249

Doc

  • Refactor the docs. #262
  • Improve the doc for the sink. #268 #275
  • Add examples of DataStream API for the sink. #253