FileOfflineStore uses dask under the hood and is in principle no different from any other offline store implementation that can work with file-based data formats. The name doesn't currently reflect that because the underlying execution engine was switched from pandas to dask later on. While the name is probably not important, I think the name change will be valuable to highlight that feast doesn't require one-to-one relationship between DataSources and OfflineStores. The related FileSource class (which should NOT be renamed) can be made to be used from other offline stores, for example SparkOfflineStore.
For backwards-compatibility, we can keep all user-facing classes (FileOfflineStore and maybe also FileRetrievalJob, FileOfflineStoreConfig) as aliases pointing to their new counterparts.
FileOfflineStoreuses dask under the hood and is in principle no different from any other offline store implementation that can work with file-based data formats. The name doesn't currently reflect that because the underlying execution engine was switched from pandas to dask later on. While the name is probably not important, I think the name change will be valuable to highlight that feast doesn't require one-to-one relationship betweenDataSourcesandOfflineStores. The relatedFileSourceclass (which should NOT be renamed) can be made to be used from other offline stores, for exampleSparkOfflineStore.For backwards-compatibility, we can keep all user-facing classes (
FileOfflineStoreand maybe alsoFileRetrievalJob,FileOfflineStoreConfig) as aliases pointing to their new counterparts.