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Aaron Kimball updated MAPREDUCE-885:
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Status: Open (was: Patch Available)
> More efficient SQL queries for DBInputFormat
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-885
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-885
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Aaron Kimball
> Assignee: Aaron Kimball
> Attachments: MAPREDUCE-885.2.patch, MAPREDUCE-885.3.patch,
> MAPREDUCE-885.4.patch, MAPREDUCE-885.patch
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> DBInputFormat generates InputSplits by counting the available rows in a
> table, and selecting subsections of the table via the "LIMIT" and "OFFSET"
> SQL keywords. These are only meaningful in an ordered context, so the query
> also includes an "ORDER BY" clause on an index column. The resulting queries
> are often inefficient and require full table scans. Actually using multiple
> mappers with these queries can lead to O(n^2) behavior in the database, where
> n is the number of splits. Attempting to use parallelism with these queries
> is counter-productive.
> A better mechanism is to organize splits based on data values themselves,
> which can be performed in the WHERE clause, allowing for index range scans of
> tables, and can better exploit parallelism in the database.
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