K - Type of primary keysV - Type of value changes@InterfaceStability.Unstable
public interface GlobalKTable<K,V>
GlobalKTable is an abstraction of a changelog stream from a primary-keyed table.
Each record in this changelog stream is an update on the primary-keyed table with the record key as the primary key.
GlobalKTable can only be used as right-hand side input for stream-table joins.
In contrast to a KTable that is partitioned over all KafkaStreams instances, a GlobalKTable
is fully replicated per KafkaStreams instance.
Every partition of the underlying topic is consumed by each GlobalKTable, such that the full set of data is
available in every KafkaStreams instance.
This provides the ability to perform joins with KStream without having to repartition the input stream.
All joins with the GlobalKTable require that a KeyValueMapper is provided that can map from the
KeyValue of the left hand side KStream to the key of the right hand side GlobalKTable.
A GlobalKTable is created via a KStreamBuilder. For example:
builder.globalTable("topic-name", "queryable-store-name");
GlobalKTables are backed by a ReadOnlyKeyValueStore and are therefore queryable via the
interactive queries API.
For example:
final GlobalKTable globalOne = builder.globalTable("g1", "g1-store");
final GlobalKTable globalTwo = builder.globalTable("g2", "g2-store");
...
final KafkaStreams streams = ...;
streams.start()
...
ReadOnlyKeyValueStore view = streams.store("g1-store", QueryableStoreTypes.keyValueStore());
view.get(key); // can be done on any key, as all keys are present
KTable a GlobalKTable's state holds a full copy if the underlying topic and
thus, all keys can be queried locally.