Github user paul-rogers commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/846#discussion_r120453820
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exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetColumnChunkPageWriteStore.java
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+package org.apache.parquet.hadoop;
+
+import static
org.apache.parquet.column.statistics.Statistics.getStatsBasedOnType;
+
+import java.io.Closeable;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+import
org.apache.drill.exec.store.parquet.ParquetDirectByteBufferAllocator;
+import org.apache.parquet.bytes.BytesInput;
+import org.apache.parquet.bytes.CapacityByteArrayOutputStream;
+import org.apache.parquet.column.ColumnDescriptor;
+import org.apache.parquet.column.Encoding;
+import org.apache.parquet.column.page.DictionaryPage;
+import org.apache.parquet.column.page.PageWriteStore;
+import org.apache.parquet.column.page.PageWriter;
+import org.apache.parquet.column.statistics.Statistics;
+import org.apache.parquet.format.converter.ParquetMetadataConverter;
+import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.CodecFactory.BytesCompressor;
+import org.apache.parquet.io.ParquetEncodingException;
+import org.apache.parquet.schema.MessageType;
+import org.apache.parquet.bytes.ByteBufferAllocator;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * This is a copy of ColumnChunkPageWriteStore from parquet library except
of OutputStream that is used here.
+ * Using of CapacityByteArrayOutputStream allows to use different
ByteBuffer allocators.
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I'm not sure that 20 GB is "OK" to write to a file: whether on the heap or
otherwise. But, if we accept the poor design that needs this much, then I agree
it is better to have uncontrolled use of direct memory than the heap. But, in
either case, uncontrolled memory use is a very bad idea.
Note that the only buffering needed is 4K: the disk block size. Experiments
with spilling show that there is zero benefit to buffering above 32K.
So, for 10 runs * 32K = 320K. This is FAR less than the 20 GB proposed, and
plenty for heap, to avoid the cost of copying data into, then out of, direct
memory.
Further, what is wrong with Java's own `BufferedOutputStream`? Was this
tried? It works well for simple cases, not sure about more complex cases.
Is the problem that Parquet must somehow buffer an entire page so it can
"backpatch" the first bytes after writing all the rest? If so, that part of
Parquet design is incompatible with a write-once file system such as HDFS: it
forces unnecessary load on the memory system. (Note, however, than an updatable
file system, such as Linux or MFS, would allow us to write data to disk, then
go back and write the header, without buffering.)
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