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Aman Sinha commented on DRILL-4530:
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Yes, indeed the storage format of the metadata cache has been discussed a few
times and various options are on the table (I believe [~parthc] has done some
analysis of the options). Thanks for the experimentation using protobuf. The
loading time improvements are quite impressive. The advantages of JSON
(simple, human readable etc.) are outweighed by the performance tradeoffs. In
any new option we consider, we must keep in mind the fast incremental refresh
scenario - this feature is highly requested by all users who are using metadata
cache.
> Improve metadata cache performance for queries with single partition
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> Key: DRILL-4530
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4530
> Project: Apache Drill
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Query Planning & Optimization
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0
> Reporter: Aman Sinha
> Assignee: Aman Sinha
> Fix For: 1.7.0
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> Consider two types of queries which are run with Parquet metadata caching:
> {noformat}
> query 1:
> SELECT col FROM `A/B/C`;
> query 2:
> SELECT col FROM `A` WHERE dir0 = 'B' AND dir1 = 'C';
> {noformat}
> For a certain dataset, the query1 elapsed time is 1 sec whereas query2
> elapsed time is 9 sec even though both are accessing the same amount of data.
> The user expectation is that they should perform roughly the same. The main
> difference comes from reading the bigger metadata cache file at the root
> level 'A' for query2 and then applying the partitioning filter. query1 reads
> a much smaller metadata cache file at the subdirectory level.
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