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Status

Current state: Voting Accepted

Discussion thread: here

Vote thread: here

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This KIP will not require any changes to the codebase or documentation upon acceptance. By accepting this KIP, we will come to a consensus on the need for this feature, and its end-user requirements, but not any specific implementation details.

At a high level, Diskless Topics are a new topic type, with a distinct ingestion engine for assigning offsets for incoming data, and durably storing those assignments. They will operate in parallel to classic topics, and copy data to Tiered Storage. Data will remain accessible to consumers both in the ingestion engines and in tiered storage.

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For details on the planned implementation, please see the integral follow-up KIPs:

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