DynamoDB
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Amazon DynamoDB Sink #

The DynamoDB sink writes to Amazon DynamoDB using the AWS v2 SDK for Java. Follow the instructions from the Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide to setup a table.

To use the connector, add the following Maven dependency to your project:

Only available for stable versions.

Properties sinkProperties = new Properties();
// Required
sinkProperties.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_REGION, "eu-west-1");
// Optional, provide via alternative routes e.g. environment variables
sinkProperties.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, "aws_access_key_id");
sinkProperties.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, "aws_secret_access_key");

ElementConverter<InputType, DynamoDbWriteRequest> elementConverter = new CustomElementConverter();

DynamoDbSink<String> dynamoDbSink = 
    DynamoDbSink.<InputType>builder()
        .setDynamoDbProperties(sinkProperties)              // Required
        .setTableName("my-dynamodb-table")                  // Required
        .setElementConverter(elementConverter)              // Required
        .setOverwriteByPartitionKeys(singletonList("key"))  // Optional  
        .setFailOnError(false)                              // Optional
        .setMaxBatchSize(25)                                // Optional
        .setMaxInFlightRequests(50)                         // Optional
        .setMaxBufferedRequests(10_000)                     // Optional
        .setMaxTimeInBufferMS(5000)                         // Optional
        .build();

flinkStream.sinkTo(dynamoDbSink);

val sinkProperties = new Properties()
// Required
sinkProperties.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_REGION, "eu-west-1")
// Optional, provide via alternative routes e.g. environment variables
sinkProperties.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, "aws_access_key_id")
sinkProperties.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, "aws_secret_access_key")

val elementConverter = new CustomElementConverter();

val dynamoDbSink =
    DynamoDbSink.<InputType>builder()
        .setDynamoDbProperties(sinkProperties)              // Required
        .setTableName("my-dynamodb-table")                  // Required
        .setElementConverter(elementConverter)              // Required
        .setOverwriteByPartitionKeys(singletonList("key"))  // Optional    
        .setFailOnError(false)                              // Optional
        .setMaxBatchSize(25)                                // Optional
        .setMaxInFlightRequests(50)                         // Optional
        .setMaxBufferedRequests(10_000)                     // Optional
        .setMaxTimeInBufferMS(5000)                         // Optional
        .build()

flinkStream.sinkTo(dynamoDbSink)

Configurations #

Flink’s DynamoDB sink is created by using the static builder DynamoDBSink.<InputType>builder().

  1. setDynamoDbProperties(Properties sinkProperties)
    • Required.
    • Supplies credentials, region and other parameters to the DynamoDB client.
  2. setTableName(String tableName)
    • Required.
    • Name of the table to sink to.
  3. setElementConverter(ElementConverter<InputType, DynamoDbWriteRequest> elementConverter)
    • Required.
    • Converts generic records of type InputType to DynamoDbWriteRequest.
  4. setOverwriteByPartitionKeys(List partitionKeys)
    • Optional. Default: [].
    • Used to deduplicate write requests within each batch pushed to DynamoDB.
  5. setFailOnError(boolean failOnError)
    • Optional. Default: false.
    • Whether failed requests to write records are treated as fatal exceptions in the sink.
  6. setMaxBatchSize(int maxBatchSize)
    • Optional. Default: 25.
    • Maximum size of a batch to write.
  7. setMaxInFlightRequests(int maxInFlightRequests)
    • Optional. Default: 50.
    • The maximum number of in flight requests allowed before the sink applies backpressure.
  8. setMaxBufferedRequests(int maxBufferedRequests)
    • Optional. Default: 10_000.
    • The maximum number of records that may be buffered in the sink before backpressure is applied.
  9. setMaxBatchSizeInBytes(int maxBatchSizeInBytes)
    • N/A.
    • This configuration is not supported, see FLINK-29854.
  10. setMaxTimeInBufferMS(int maxTimeInBufferMS)
    • Optional. Default: 5000.
    • The maximum time a record may stay in the sink before being flushed.
  11. setMaxRecordSizeInBytes(int maxRecordSizeInBytes)
    • N/A.
    • This configuration is not supported, see FLINK-29854.
  12. build()
    • Constructs and returns the DynamoDB sink.

Element Converter #

An element converter is used to convert from a record in the DataStream to a DynamoDbWriteRequest which the sink will write to the destination DynamoDB table. The DynamoDB sink allows the user to supply a custom element converter, or use the provided DynamoDbBeanElementConverter when you are working with @DynamoDbBean objects. For more information on supported annotations see here.

A sample application using a custom ElementConverter can be found here. A sample application using the DynamoDbBeanElementConverter can be found here.

Using Custom DynamoDB Endpoints #

It is sometimes desirable to have Flink operate as a consumer or producer against a DynamoDB VPC endpoint or a non-AWS DynamoDB endpoint such as Localstack; this is especially useful when performing functional testing of a Flink application. The AWS endpoint that would normally be inferred by the AWS region set in the Flink configuration must be overridden via a configuration property.

To override the AWS endpoint, set the AWSConfigConstants.AWS_ENDPOINT and AWSConfigConstants.AWS_REGION properties. The region will be used to sign the endpoint URL.

Properties producerConfig = new Properties();
producerConfig.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_REGION, "eu-west-1");
producerConfig.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, "aws_access_key_id");
producerConfig.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, "aws_secret_access_key");
producerConfig.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_ENDPOINT, "http://localhost:4566");

val producerConfig = new Properties()
producerConfig.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_REGION, "eu-west-1")
producerConfig.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, "aws_access_key_id")
producerConfig.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, "aws_secret_access_key")
producerConfig.put(AWSConfigConstants.AWS_ENDPOINT, "http://localhost:4566")

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