Hi,

 

We were testing the query efficiency with some sql containing 'IN' keyword
on a relatively big table which holds 22+ Million records.

 

It seems to us that sql with a number of items in 'IN' show very poor
performance in terms of running time.

 

The fact table used has three columns: themonth, id, trans_at, and we
created the cube with 2 dimensions and 1 measure:

Dimensions: themonth, id

Measure: sum(trans_at)

 

Basically our queries are all similar to the one:

 

select themonth, id, sum(trans_at) from the_table where id IN (id1, id2,
id3, .) group by themonth, id limit 10

 


When the number of ids reaches about 30-50, the response time becomes
considerable long in terms of minutes. By the way, we are running kylin on
12 nodes with 2 name nodes and 10 data nodes.

 

Besides, we tried to break the above sql with 'IN' keyword into several
sub-sql and merge the results of each sub-sql to get the final result like
the following:

select themonth, id, sum(trans_at) from the_table where id = id1 group by
themonth, id limit 10

select themonth, id, sum(trans_at) from the_table where id = id2 group by
themonth, id limit 10

select themonth, id, sum(trans_at) from the_table where id = id3 group by
themonth, id limit 10

.

 

Surprisedly, the total running time of those sub-sql is much less than the
running time of the orginal sql with 'IN' keyword.

 

Initially I thought the backend query engine should handle 'IN' keyword in
the similar way as the individual sql with '=' keyword, but it seems not.

 

Can anybody provide any thoughts regarding this? Any ideas on how to tune
the queries containing 'IN' keyword?

 

Best Regards. 

Hua

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