"Streaming" might have been a bad choice of words, batches of rows is
actually what I meant.

I looked into it a bit more and noticed that it actually works with
1.4.0-incubating but not with 1.3.0-incubating. There is no real
reason why I was still on 1.3.0, so it is no longer an issue for me.

I am using JdbcMeta with the out-of-the-box
org.apache.calcite.avatica.server.Main.

Thanks,
Jan

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
> A trusim is that if you look sufficiently closely at any stream it is 
> revealed to be batches. The Avatica API supports incremental fetches[1] as 
> batches of rows (called “frames”) and so both its JSON and Protobuf formats.
>
> There used to be a limitation for metadata result sets (e.g. getTables) that 
> all of the rows were squashed into the the first frame, however many there 
> were. (See class MetaResultSet.) I don’t recall whether that limitation still 
> holds.
>
> For other result sets, you can implement the “fetch” method and start 
> returning rows as soon as you have some.
>
> If there is a particular implementation of Avatica server that buffers so 
> many rows that it runs out of memory then that is a bug and it would be 
> helpful to see the stack trace.
>
> Julian
>
> [1] 
> http://calcite.incubator.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/calcite/avatica/Meta.html#fetch-org.apache.calcite.avatica.Meta.StatementHandle-java.util.List-long-int-
>  
> <http://calcite.incubator.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/calcite/avatica/Meta.html#fetch-org.apache.calcite.avatica.Meta.StatementHandle-java.util.List-long-int->
>
>
>> On Sep 21, 2015, at 8:28 AM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> Cool! I hope you're having success using Avatica.
>>
>> I would call it missing functionality in Avatica itself. IIRC, you'll get 
>> bundles of 100 messages that come back in one HTTP response from the Avatica 
>> server.
>>
>> It's been a while since I've looked at state of the art web-tech, but I 
>> remember seeing some neat natives built into gRPC that support streaming on 
>> top of HTTP/2. I'm not sure how best (in terms of client compatibility) to 
>> support streaming results back instead of bundling and sending once a 
>> certain size is reached, but it's definitely an area that could be improved! 
>> Would love to have a discussion on the matter.
>>
>> - Josh
>>
>> Jan Van Besien wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was looking into Avatica to create a "thin" jdbc client for our
>>> existing "thick" jdbc client implemented with calcite. I got something
>>> working very quickly, very much similar to what Apache Phoenix has
>>> done.
>>>
>>> However, I immediately notice that there is no streaming between
>>> client and server for large result sets. In other words, if I execute
>>> a query which results in a large result set, the client has to wait a
>>> long time without any feedback and if the result set is large enough
>>> the server goes OOM.
>>>
>>> I am wondering if this functionality is simply missing from Avatica or
>>> whether there is some extra work required on my end to make it work.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Jan
>

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