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Alex Liu commented on CASSANDRA-6048:
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A good summary of different index scans in PostgresSQL.
https://gist.github.com/hgmnz/883144
h4. Index scan vs Bitmap Index Scan vs Merge join
h5. Index Scan
reads the index in alternation, bouncing between table and index, row at a
time.
Performance gain when reading a few rows from a big table. It goes to the
index, finds the rows
Only method of accessing a table the can return rows in sorted order -
useful in combination with LIMIT.
Disadvantage: Causes random I/O against the base table. Read a row from the
index, then a row from the table, and so on.
h5. Bitmap Index Scan
scans all index rows before examining base table.
Can efficiently combine data from multiple indeces. the TID bitmap can
handle boolean ANDs and ORs.
Handles LIMIT poorly.
Adjust page cost parameters to use Index scans vs Bitamp scans on queries
where it makes sense.
SMALL INDEXES ARE BETTER. Less columns are better. Avoid multicolumn
indexes.
h5. Merge join
Puts both input relations in sorted order (sort or index scan), and match up on
equal values by scanning through the two in parallel.
Only way to handle really big datasets, however merge joins are slower.
My approach is combing Index scan and merge join of indexes which handle limit
clause better and keep the order.
We can use Bitmap Index Scan for none-limit clause query and result sets are
not in order.
> Add the ability to use multiple indexes in a single query
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-6048
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6048
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Alex Liu
> Assignee: Alex Liu
> Fix For: 2.1
>
> Attachments: 6048-1.2-branch.txt, 6048-trunk.txt
>
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> Existing data filtering uses the following algorithm
> {code}
> 1. find best selective predicate based on the smallest mean columns count
> 2. fetch rows for the best selective predicate predicate, then filter the
> data based on other predicates left.
> {code}
> So potentially we could improve the performance by
> {code}
> 1. joining multiple predicates then do the data filtering for other
> predicates.
> 2. fine tune the best predicate selection algorithm
> {code}
> For multiple predicate join, it could improve performance if one predicate
> has many entries and another predicate has a very few of entries. It means a
> few index CF read, join the row keys, fetch rows then filter other predicates
> Another approach is to have index on multiple columns.
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