File

Description

The file offline store provides support for reading FileSources. It uses Dask as the compute engine.

All data is downloaded and joined using Python and therefore may not scale to production workloads.

Example

feature_store.yaml

project: my_feature_repo
registry: data/registry.db
provider: local
offline_store:
  type: file

The full set of configuration options is available in FileOfflineStoreConfig.

Functionality Matrix

The set of functionality supported by offline stores is described in detail here. Below is a matrix indicating which functionality is supported by the file offline store.

	File
get_historical_features (point-in-time correct join)	yes
pull_latest_from_table_or_query (retrieve latest feature values)	yes
pull_all_from_table_or_query (retrieve a saved dataset)	yes
offline_write_batch (persist dataframes to offline store)	yes
write_logged_features (persist logged features to offline store)	yes

Below is a matrix indicating which functionality is supported by FileRetrievalJob.

	File
export to dataframe	yes
export to arrow table	yes
export to arrow batches	no
export to SQL	no
export to data lake (S3, GCS, etc.)	no
export to data warehouse	no
export as Spark dataframe	no
local execution of Python-based on-demand transforms	yes
remote execution of Python-based on-demand transforms	no
persist results in the offline store	yes
preview the query plan before execution	yes
read partitioned data	yes

To compare this set of functionality against other offline stores, please see the full functionality matrix.