Is Kafka Stream StateStore global over all instances or just local?

Question

In Kafka Stream WordCount example, it uses StateStore to store word counts. If there are multiple instances in the same consumer group, the S

Answer 1

Use a Processor instead of Transformer, for all the transformations you want to perform on the input topic, whenever there is a usecase of lookingup data from GlobalStateStore . Use context.forward(key,value,childName) to send the data to the downstream nodes. context.forward(key,value,childName) may be called multiple times in a process() and punctuate() , so as to send multiple records to downstream node. If there is a requirement to update GlobalStateStore, do this only in Processor passed to addGlobalStore(..) because, there is a GlobalStreamThread associated with GlobalStateStore, which keeps the state of the store consistent across all the running kstream instances.