Time-Series Offset Storage for Accurate Stream Repositioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current streaming platform systems face inefficiencies in accessing data change events due to reliance on distributed file-based storage and specific API versions, leading to excessive resource consumption and inaccurate identification of data stream starting points, limiting flexibility and accessibility.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a time series database to manage database offsets, allowing precise repositioning of data streams to specific times using time parameters, reducing dependency on specific APIs and enhancing data accuracy and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If distributed file-based storage is used to manage database offsets, then the system can store offset information, but it requires extensive computer processing activity and excessive consumption of electronic resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a time series database as an intermediary component between the streaming platform and the offset storage mechanism. This time series database efficiently manages offset information by time, replacing the resource-intensive distributed file-based storage approach while maintaining the necessary offset storage functionality.
2Reliability
If distributed file-based storage is used to manage database offsets, then the system can store offset information, but it requires extensive computer processing activity
Solution Approach 1:
The time series database acts as a mediator that optimizes the offset management process. It provides a more efficient data structure and access pattern specifically designed for time-series offset information, thereby improving processing efficiency compared to general-purpose distributed file storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of how offsets are organized and accessed by using time-based indexing in the time series database rather than file-based storage. This parameter change from file-based to time-series-based organization dramatically improves processing efficiency for offset retrieval operations.
3Stability of the object's composition
If specific versions of API are required to access offsets, then the system can maintain compatibility, but it limits access and use of the streaming platform system
Solution Approach 1:
The time series database provides a universal interface for offset access that works across different API versions and use cases. By storing offsets in a standardized time-series format, the system enables diverse access patterns (replay, backup, recovery) without requiring version-specific implementations, thus achieving both stability and adaptability.
4Ease of operation
If current solutions are used to identify starting points in data stream, then the system can access data, but it does not efficiently enable consumers to accurately identify the appropriate point in the data stream
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter used to identify stream positions from generic offset identifiers to precise time-based parameters. The time series database stores offsets with associated timestamps, enabling consumers to accurately identify and retrieve data from specific points in time rather than relying on less precise offset mechanisms.
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AI summary
Systems and methods of improving the functioning of a streaming platform system by managing database change stream offsets using a time series database are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer system retrieves an offset value from a plurality of offset values stored in a time series database, with the plurality of offset values being indexed in the time series database in time order, and the retrieved offset value being retrieved using a time parameter, and then the computer system transmits a data request to a stream-processing platform, with the data request comprising the retrieved offset value, and the data request being operable to retrieve a data record stored in association with the retrieved offset value in a storage layer of the stream-processing platform using the offset value.