Yeah, sorry, I was probably wrong about the "blocked" part: it's the select
statement without a filter that's taking very long, regardless of any
running refreshes in parallel. Adding a partition filter for the last day
brings down the execution time to ~10 seconds (still way below Trino, it
can do it in ~2 seconds).

2025-01-09, kt, 13:31 Saulius Valatka <saulius...@gmail.com> rašė:

> The table being "blocked" is just my hypothesis, maybe I'm wrong? I can
> see that when a REFRESH statement is running, issuing a simple "select *
> from table limit 10" sits in "CREATED Query submitted" state until roughly
> when the refresh statement finishes.
> Just out of curiosity I launched a Trino cluster on the same servers as
> Impala and hooked it up to the same Iceberg catalog, issuing an identical
> "select * from table limit 10" runs in ~2 seconds, whereas in Impala it's
> ~2 minutes.
>
> Here's the details for the select query execution:
>
> Query Compilation: 1m14s
>    - Metadata of all 2 tables cached: 42s528ms (42s528ms)
>    - Analysis finished: 42s539ms (10.112ms)
>    - Authorization finished (ranger): 42s540ms (1.246ms)
>    - Value transfer graph computed: 42s540ms (609.596us)
>    - Single node plan created: 1m13s (30s493ms)
>    - Runtime filters computed: 1m13s (44.325us)
>    - Distributed plan created: 1m13s (29.075us)
>    - Parallel plans created: 1m13s (266.400us)
>    - Planning finished: 1m14s (1s727ms)
> Query Timeline: 2m13s
>    - Query submitted: 50.627us (50.627us)
>    - Planning finished: 1m27s (1m27s)
>    - Submit for admission: 1m27s (273.383us)
>    - Completed admission: 1m55s (28s320ms)
>    - Ready to start on 121 backends: 1m55s (91.685ms)
>    - All 121 execution backends (1921 fragment instances) started: 2m7s
> (11s578ms)
>    - Rows available: 2m7s (1.412ms)
>    - First row fetched: 2m7s (291.051ms)
>    - Last row fetched: 2m7s (225.054ms)
>    - Released admission control resources: 2m13s (5s433ms)
>    - Unregister query: 2m13s (100.938ms)
>
> Catalog Server Operation: 49s120ms
>        - Got Metastore client: 3.116us (3.116us)
>        - Got catalog version read lock: 2.250ms (2.247ms)
>        - Got catalog version write lock and table write lock: 2.315ms
> (65.074us)
>        - Got Metastore client: 2.320ms (4.258us)
>        - Fetched table from Metastore: 12.885ms (10.565ms)
>        - Loaded Iceberg API table: 72.570ms (59.684ms)
>        - Loaded schema from Iceberg: 72.751ms (181.127us)
>        - Loaded Iceberg files: 7s925ms (7s852ms)
>        - Loaded all column stats: 7s953ms (28.404ms)
>        - Loaded table schema: 7s958ms (5.226ms)
>        - Start refreshing file metadata: 7s959ms (431.115us)
>        - Loaded file metadata for 1 partitions: 22s081ms (14s122ms)
>        - Loaded all column stats: 49s120ms (27s038ms)
>        - Loaded table: 49s120ms (30.027us)
>        - Finished resetMetadata request: 49s120ms (312.849us)
> Query Compilation: 53s727ms
>        - Metadata of all 2 tables cached: 53s726ms (53s726ms)
>        - Analysis finished: 53s726ms (67.048us)
>        - Authorization finished (ranger): 53s727ms (422.569us)
>        - Planning finished: 53s727ms (137.463us)
> Query Timeline: 1m44s
>        - Query submitted: 42.071us (42.071us)
>        - Planning finished: 53s735ms (53s735ms)
>        - CatalogDdlRequest finished: 1m42s (49s122ms)
>        - Applied catalog updates from DDL: 1m43s (1s049ms)
>        - Request finished: 1m43s (14.695ms)
>        - Unregister query: 1m44s (912.626ms)
>
> 2025-01-09, kt, 12:33 Zoltán Borók-Nagy <borokna...@cloudera.com> rašė:
>
>> Thanks for the update.
>>
>> So the whole REFRESH operation took 1m50s. From this CatalogDdlRequest was
>> only 46s313ms. This 46s313ms is the time when the table is blocked, right?
>> From CatalogDdlRequest the longest operation was loading column stats
>> which
>> took 27s300ms. This is a single RPC (getTableColumnStatistics()) toward
>> HMS, it would be good to know why it took so long. Especially given that
>> loading file metadata for this huge table was around 19 seconds.
>> It's also interesting that "Loaded all column stats" appears twice in the
>> catalog timeline. At first it took 11.697ms, and the second invocation was
>> the one that took 27s300ms. Hopefully we can get rid of the second
>> invocation but that'll require a code change.
>>
>> I also wonder why the table is not queryable from the Coordinator cache
>> while it is being reloaded in CatalogD, I hope we can fix this as well.
>>
>> Is the table expected to grow indefinitely? Or do you drop/relocate old
>> partitions after some time?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Zoltan
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM Saulius Valatka <saulius...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > so I just tried applying IMPALA-13254 on top of 4.4.1, redeployed and
>> > refresh times for the largest table went down from ~80 minutes to ~2
>> > minutes!
>> > That's waaay better, but still not ideal: if we issue a refresh every 15
>> > minutes, there's still a lot of time the table is blocked for a minute
>> or
>> > two, but at least now it's queryable.
>> >
>> > Here's an example REFRESH timeline:
>> >
>> > Catalog Server Operation: 46s213ms
>> >    - Got Metastore client: 5.771us (5.771us)
>> >    - Got catalog version read lock: 2.334ms (2.328ms)
>> >    - Got catalog version write lock and table write lock: 2.459ms
>> > (125.470us)
>> >    - Got Metastore client: 2.465ms (6.181us)
>> >    - Fetched table from Metastore: 12.831ms (10.366ms)
>> >    - Loaded Iceberg API table: 139.024ms (126.192ms)
>> >    - Loaded schema from Iceberg: 139.175ms (150.949us)
>> >    - Loaded Iceberg files: 5s036ms (4s897ms)
>> >    - Loaded all column stats: 5s047ms (11.697ms)
>> >    - Loaded table schema: 5s053ms (5.279ms)
>> >    - Start refreshing file metadata: 5s053ms (291.959us)
>> >    - Loaded file metadata for 1 partitions: 18s912ms (13s859ms)
>> >    - Loaded all column stats: 46s213ms (27s300ms)
>> >    - Loaded table: 46s213ms (36.600us)
>> >    - Finished resetMetadata request: 46s213ms (485.329us)
>> > Query Compilation: 1m3s
>> >    - Metadata of all 2 tables cached: 1m3s (1m3s)
>> >    - Analysis finished: 1m3s (237.705us)
>> >    - Authorization finished (ranger): 1m3s (808.267us)
>> >    - Planning finished: 1m3s (581.713us)
>> > Query Timeline: 1m51s
>> >    - Query submitted: 40.227us (40.227us)
>> >    - Planning finished: 1m3s (1m3s)
>> >    - CatalogDdlRequest finished: 1m50s (46s313ms)
>> >    - Applied catalog updates from DDL: 1m50s (24.206ms)
>> >    - Request finished: 1m50s (202.949us)
>> >    - Unregister query: 1m51s (763.412ms)
>> >
>> >
>> > 2025-01-08, tr, 17:50 Zoltán Borók-Nagy <borokna...@cloudera.com> rašė:
>> >
>> > > Thanks for the info, Saulius.
>> > >
>> > > If you try out IMPALA-13254, please let us know how much it helps in
>> > > your case.
>> > > Hopefully it speeds up table loading times enough so it won't cause
>> too
>> > > much turbulence.
>> > > Some table loading statistics would be also helpful to know where the
>> > time
>> > > is being spent.
>> > >
>> > > Do you use local catalog mode?
>> > > https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/html/topics/impala_metadata.html
>> > > I'm not sure how much it will help, but it could be worth trying out.
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > >     Zoltan
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM Saulius Valatka <saulius...@gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > >
>> > > > sorry, maybe I worded my question wrong: I understand that
>> refreshing
>> > is
>> > > > needed (either automatic or manual), main concerns are the latency
>> of
>> > the
>> > > > refresh and the fact that the table is not queryable while it's
>> being
>> > > > refreshed - for large tables that are being updated frequently this
>> > > > combination makes them essentially un-queryable.
>> > > >
>> > > > 2025-01-08, tr, 15:17 Gabor Kaszab <gaborkas...@apache.org> rašė:
>> > > >
>> > > > > Hi,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I don't think that the issue you describe is specific to Iceberg
>> in a
>> > > > sense
>> > > > > that even for Hive tables if you make changes using an engine that
>> > > > doesn't
>> > > > > trigger HMS events, one has to issue refresh/invalidate metadata
>> to
>> > see
>> > > > the
>> > > > > changes reflected in Impala.
>> > > > > Could you share what catalog you use for your Iceberg tables? And
>> > what
>> > > > tool
>> > > > > do you use for data ingestion into these tables?
>> > > > > If you use the HMS backed HiveCatalog as a catalog and an engine
>> that
>> > > > > triggers HMS notifications, like Spark or Hive then even for
>> Iceberg
>> > > > tables
>> > > > > you can avoid executing refresh manually.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Gabor
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM Saulius Valatka <
>> saulius...@gmail.com
>> > >
>> > > > > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > Hi,
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > If I understand correctly, once an Iceberg table is mutated
>> outside
>> > > of
>> > > > > > Impala one has to run a refresh or invalidate statement. We
>> noticed
>> > > > that
>> > > > > > running refresh on huge tables can take minutes and while that
>> is
>> > > > > happening
>> > > > > > querying them is blocked. We have large event tables that are
>> being
>> > > > > updated
>> > > > > > very frequently in real-time, by default we run a refresh after
>> > each
>> > > > > > update, so effectively this means such tables are un-queryable,
>> as
>> > > > > they're
>> > > > > > constantly being refreshed.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Is there something I'm missing? What would the recommendation
>> here
>> > > be?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
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