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How does Structured Streaming ensure end-to-end fault tolerance?





Explanation:

Structured Streaming achieves end-to-end fault tolerance through Checkpointing and Idempotent Sinks.

  • Checkpointing saves the current state of the streaming query, including input stream offsets, allowing the query to restart from the last checkpoint after a failure, ensuring no data loss.
  • Idempotent Sinks can process the same data multiple times without duplicating results, ensuring consistency even if data is reprocessed due to failures or retries.

Other options are incorrect because:

  • Watermarking manages late data and triggers micro-batch processing but doesn't directly aid in fault tolerance.
  • Write-ahead logging, while useful in some systems, isn't a primary fault tolerance mechanism in Structured Streaming.
  • Failover to available nodes is part of fault tolerance but doesn't alone ensure data consistency or prevent loss without checkpointing and idempotent sinks.