Vsevolod Ostapenko created KYLIN-3122:
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             Summary: Partition elimination algorithm seems to be inefficient 
and have serious issues with handling date/time ranges, can lead to very slow 
queries and OOM/Java heap dump conditions
                 Key: KYLIN-3122
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KYLIN-3122
             Project: Kylin
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Storage - HBase
    Affects Versions: v2.2.0
         Environment: HDP 2.5.6, Kylin 2.2.0
            Reporter: Vsevolod Ostapenko
            Assignee: hongbin ma


Current algorithm of cube segment elimination seems to be rather inefficient.
We are using a model where cubes are partitioned by date and time:
"partition_desc": {
    "partition_date_column": "A_VL_HOURLY_V.THEDATE",
    "partition_time_column": "A_VL_HOURLY_V.THEHOUR",
    "partition_date_start": 0,
    "partition_date_format": "yyyyMMdd",
    "partition_time_format": "HH",
    "partition_type": "APPEND",
    "partition_condition_builder": 
"org.apache.kylin.metadata.model.PartitionDesc$DefaultPartitionConditionBuilder"
  },

Cubes contain partitions for multiple days and 24 hours for each day. Each cube 
segment corresponds to just one hour.

When a query is issued where both date and hour are specified using equality 
condition (e.g. thedate = '20171011' and thehour = '00') Kylin sequentially 
integrates over all the segment cubes (hundreds of them) only to skip all 
except for the one that needs to be scanned (which can be observed by looking 
in the logs).
The expectation is that Kylin would use existing info on the partitioning 
columns (date and time) and known hierarchical relations between date and time 
to locate required partition much more efficiently that linear scan through all 
the cube partitions.

Now, if filtering condition is on the range of hours, behavior of the partition 
pruning and scanning becomes not very logical, which suggest bugs in the logic.

If condition is on specific date and closed-open range of hours (e.g. thedate = 
'20171011' and thehour >= '10' and thehour < '11'), in addition to sequentially 
scanning all the cube partitions (as described above), Kylin will scan HBase 
regions for all the hours from the starting hour and till the last hour of the 
day (e.g. from hour 10 to 24).
As the result query will run much longer that necessary, and might run out of 
memory.


If condition is on specific date by hour interval is specified as open-closed 
(e.g. thedate = '20171011' and thehour > '10' and thehour <= '11'), Kylin will 
scan all HBase regions for all the later dates and hours (e.g. from hour 10 and 
till the most recent hour on the most recent day).
As the result query execution will dramatically increase and in most cases 
Kylin server will be terminated with OOM error and JVM heap dump.



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