calrissian / flowmix

Flowmix is a flexible event processing engine for Apache Storm. It supports complex correlations of events via sliding/tumbling windows. It allows parallel streams to be processed that can be grouped together in different ways.
Apache License 2.0
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Allow time-based triggered windows to be synchronized #17

Open cjnolet opened 10 years ago

cjnolet commented 10 years ago

Currently, all windows are independent with regards to time. Storm manages a ticking so that seconds can be incremented at the window level but, for instance, I an aggregator window should trigger every 50 seconds, the windows will start counting those 50 seconds based on when the window opened instead of a global 50 second interval set by the bolt.

There are cases where you'd want both, but specifically it would be nice to be able to lock the aggregators to the bolt's counter so that they all trigger at the same time.