, [`StaticGoogleBlobStoreFirehose`](../development/extensions-contrib/google.html#staticgoogleblobstorefirehose), and [`StaticCloudFilesFirehose`](../development/extensions-contrib/cloudfiles.html#staticcloudfilesfirehose).
The splittable firehose is responsible for generating _splits_. The supervisor task generates _worker task specs_ each of
which specifies a split and submits worker tasks using those specs. As a result, the number of worker tasks depends on
the implementation of splittable firehoses. Please note that multiple tasks can be created for the same worker task spec
|type|The task type, this should always be `index_parallel`.|yes|
|id|The task ID. If this is not explicitly specified, Druid generates the task ID using task type, data source name, interval, and date-time stamp. |no|
|spec|The ingestion spec including the data schema, IOConfig, and TuningConfig. See below for more details. |yes|
|context|Context containing various task configuration parameters. See below for more details.|no|
|type|The task type, this should always be `index_parallel`.|none|yes|
|firehose|Specify a [Firehose](../ingestion/firehose.html) here.|none|yes|
|appendToExisting|Creates segments as additional shards of the latest version, effectively appending to the segment set instead of replacing it. This will only work if the existing segment set has extendable-type shardSpecs (which can be forced by setting 'forceExtendableShardSpecs' in the tuning config).|false|no|
#### TuningConfig
The tuningConfig is optional and default parameters will be used if no tuningConfig is specified. See below for more details.
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|type|The task type, this should always be `index_parallel`.|none|yes|
|targetPartitionSize|Used in sharding. Determines how many rows are in each segment.|5000000|no|
|maxRowsInMemory|Used in determining when intermediate persists to disk should occur. Normally user does not need to set this, but depending on the nature of data, if rows are short in terms of bytes, user may not want to store a million rows in memory and this value should be set.|1000000|no|
|maxBytesInMemory|Used in determining when intermediate persists to disk should occur. Normally this is computed internally and user does not need to set it. This value represents number of bytes to aggregate in heap memory before persisting. This is based on a rough estimate of memory usage and not actual usage. The maximum heap memory usage for indexing is maxBytesInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists)|1/6 of max JVM memory|no|
|numShards|Directly specify the number of shards to create. If this is specified and 'intervals' is specified in the granularitySpec, the index task can skip the determine intervals/partitions pass through the data. numShards cannot be specified if targetPartitionSize is set.|null|no|
|indexSpec|defines segment storage format options to be used at indexing time, see [IndexSpec](#indexspec)|null|no|
|maxPendingPersists|Maximum number of persists that can be pending but not started. If this limit would be exceeded by a new intermediate persist, ingestion will block until the currently-running persist finishes. Maximum heap memory usage for indexing scales with maxRowsInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists).|0 (meaning one persist can be running concurrently with ingestion, and none can be queued up)|no|
|forceExtendableShardSpecs|Forces use of extendable shardSpecs. Experimental feature intended for use with the [Kafka indexing service extension](../development/extensions-core/kafka-ingestion.html).|false|no|
|reportParseExceptions|If true, exceptions encountered during parsing will be thrown and will halt ingestion; if false, unparseable rows and fields will be skipped.|false|no|
|pushTimeout|Milliseconds to wait for pushing segments. It must be >= 0, where 0 means to wait forever.|0|no|
|segmentWriteOutMediumFactory|Segment write-out medium to use when creating segments. See [Additional Peon Configuration: SegmentWriteOutMediumFactory](../configuration/index.html#segmentwriteoutmediumfactory) for explanation and available options.|Not specified, the value from `druid.peon.defaultSegmentWriteOutMediumFactory` is used|no|
Returns the task attempt history of the worker task spec of the given id, or HTTP 404 Not Found error if the supervisor task is running in the sequential mode.
Local Index Task
----------------
The Local Index Task is designed to be used for smaller data sets. The task executes within the indexing service. The grammar of the index task is as follows:
|type|The task type, this should always be "index".|yes|
|id|The task ID. If this is not explicitly specified, Druid generates the task ID using task type, data source name, interval, and date-time stamp. |no|
|spec|The ingestion spec including the data schema, IOConfig, and TuningConfig. See below for more details. |yes|
|context|Context containing various task configuration parameters. See below for more details.|no|
|type|The task type, this should always be "index".|none|yes|
|firehose|Specify a [Firehose](../ingestion/firehose.html) here.|none|yes|
|appendToExisting|Creates segments as additional shards of the latest version, effectively appending to the segment set instead of replacing it. This will only work if the existing segment set has extendable-type shardSpecs (which can be forced by setting 'forceExtendableShardSpecs' in the tuning config).|false|no|
#### TuningConfig
The tuningConfig is optional and default parameters will be used if no tuningConfig is specified. See below for more details.
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|type|The task type, this should always be "index".|none|yes|
|targetPartitionSize|Used in sharding. Determines how many rows are in each segment.|5000000|no|
|maxRowsInMemory|Used in determining when intermediate persists to disk should occur. Normally user does not need to set this, but depending on the nature of data, if rows are short in terms of bytes, user may not want to store a million rows in memory and this value should be set.|1000000|no|
|maxBytesInMemory|Used in determining when intermediate persists to disk should occur. Normally this is computed internally and user does not need to set it. This value represents number of bytes to aggregate in heap memory before persisting. This is based on a rough estimate of memory usage and not actual usage. The maximum heap memory usage for indexing is maxBytesInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists)|1/6 of max JVM memory|no|
|maxTotalRows|Total number of rows in segments waiting for being pushed. Used in determining when intermediate pushing should occur.|20000000|no|
|numShards|Directly specify the number of shards to create. If this is specified and 'intervals' is specified in the granularitySpec, the index task can skip the determine intervals/partitions pass through the data. numShards cannot be specified if targetPartitionSize is set.|null|no|
|partitionDimensions|The dimensions to partition on. Leave blank to select all dimensions. Only used with `forceGuaranteedRollup` = true, will be ignored otherwise.|null|no|
|indexSpec|defines segment storage format options to be used at indexing time, see [IndexSpec](#indexspec)|null|no|
|maxPendingPersists|Maximum number of persists that can be pending but not started. If this limit would be exceeded by a new intermediate persist, ingestion will block until the currently-running persist finishes. Maximum heap memory usage for indexing scales with maxRowsInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists).|0 (meaning one persist can be running concurrently with ingestion, and none can be queued up)|no|
|forceExtendableShardSpecs|Forces use of extendable shardSpecs. Experimental feature intended for use with the [Kafka indexing service extension](../development/extensions-core/kafka-ingestion.html).|false|no|
|forceGuaranteedRollup|Forces guaranteeing the [perfect rollup](../ingestion/index.html#roll-up-modes). The perfect rollup optimizes the total size of generated segments and querying time while indexing time will be increased. This flag cannot be used with either `appendToExisting` of IOConfig or `forceExtendableShardSpecs`. For more details, see the below __Segment pushing modes__ section.|false|no|
|reportParseExceptions|DEPRECATED. If true, exceptions encountered during parsing will be thrown and will halt ingestion; if false, unparseable rows and fields will be skipped. Setting `reportParseExceptions` to true will override existing configurations for `maxParseExceptions` and `maxSavedParseExceptions`, setting `maxParseExceptions` to 0 and limiting `maxSavedParseExceptions` to no more than 1.|false|no|
|segmentWriteOutMediumFactory|Segment write-out medium to use when creating segments. See [Additional Peon Configuration: SegmentWriteOutMediumFactory](../configuration/index.html#segmentwriteoutmediumfactory) for explanation and available options.|Not specified, the value from `druid.peon.defaultSegmentWriteOutMediumFactory` is used|no|
|logParseExceptions|If true, log an error message when a parsing exception occurs, containing information about the row where the error occurred.|false|no|
|maxParseExceptions|The maximum number of parse exceptions that can occur before the task halts ingestion and fails. Overridden if `reportParseExceptions` is set.|unlimited|no|
|maxSavedParseExceptions|When a parse exception occurs, Druid can keep track of the most recent parse exceptions. "maxSavedParseExceptions" limits how many exception instances will be saved. These saved exceptions will be made available after the task finishes in the [task completion report](../ingestion/reports.html). Overridden if `reportParseExceptions` is set.|0|no|
The indexSpec defines segment storage format options to be used at indexing time, such as bitmap type and column
compression formats. The indexSpec is optional and default parameters will be used if not specified.
|Field|Type|Description|Required|
|-----|----|-----------|--------|
|bitmap|Object|Compression format for bitmap indexes. Should be a JSON object; see below for options.|no (defaults to Concise)|
|dimensionCompression|String|Compression format for dimension columns. Choose from `LZ4`, `LZF`, or `uncompressed`.|no (default == `LZ4`)|
|metricCompression|String|Compression format for metric columns. Choose from `LZ4`, `LZF`, `uncompressed`, or `none`.|no (default == `LZ4`)|
|longEncoding|String|Encoding format for metric and dimension columns with type long. Choose from `auto` or `longs`. `auto` encodes the values using offset or lookup table depending on column cardinality, and store them with variable size. `longs` stores the value as is with 8 bytes each.|no (default == `longs`)|
##### Bitmap types
For Concise bitmaps:
|Field|Type|Description|Required|
|-----|----|-----------|--------|
|type|String|Must be `concise`.|yes|
For Roaring bitmaps:
|Field|Type|Description|Required|
|-----|----|-----------|--------|
|type|String|Must be `roaring`.|yes|
|compressRunOnSerialization|Boolean|Use a run-length encoding where it is estimated as more space efficient.|no (default == `true`)|
#### Segment pushing modes
While ingesting data using the Index task, it creates segments from the input data and pushes them. For segment pushing,
the Index task supports two segment pushing modes, i.e., _bulk pushing mode_ and _incremental pushing mode_ for
