I think Plasma is a generic object store, so you could potentially
serialize all the data to a IPC stream file and store that.


On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:46 AM 鲁立君 <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am an beginner of Arrow and Plasma, I am trying to use them in my
> project to improve performance.
>
> I will slice the origin VectorSchemaRoot and get many
> sliced VectorSchemaRoot in my project, and then I will store these
> VectorSchemaRoot into Plasma and the objectIds are the output of my task.
>
> Now I have a problem, for example, If I need to sort multiple
> VectorSchemaRoot globally and output it sequentially, my solution is to
> build a secondary index, sort it, and slice the raw data then output. So I
> will get a lot of VectorSchemaRoot and a lot of objectId. This puts a lot
> of pressure on my metadata store.
>
> I have a preliminary understanding of the principle of using Plasma to
> store ArrowRecordBatch, I think it's a process of serializing
> ArrowRecordBatch and deserializing it after reading it. However, the
> serialization and deserialization utility classes currently provided by
> Arrow only allow storing or reading a single ArrowRecordBatch.
>
> Here is my sample code
>
> // store a recordBatchList and get a list of objectId
>
> public List<String> storeRecordBatch(Schema schema, List<ArrowRecordBatch> 
> recordBatchList) throws IOException {
>     List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
>     for (ArrowRecordBatch recordBatch : recordBatchList) {
>         ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new 
> ByteArrayOutputStream();
>         WritableByteChannel writableByteChannel = 
> Channels.newChannel(byteArrayOutputStream);
>         WriteChannel writeChannel = new WriteChannel(writableByteChannel);
>         MessageSerializer.serialize(writeChannel, schema);
>         MessageSerializer.serialize(writeChannel, recordBatch);
>
>         byte[] id = new byte[20];
>         do {
>             new Random().nextBytes(id);
>         } while (plasmaClient.contains(id));
>
>         plasmaClient.put(id, byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray(), null);
>         assert plasmaClient.contains(id);
>         String objectId = ByteBufUtil.hexDump(id);
>         result.add(objectId);
>     }
>     return result;
> }
>
>
> // get a list of ArrowRecordBatch with a list of objectId
>
> public List<ArrowRecordBatch> getRecordBatches(List<String> blockIdList, 
> BufferAllocator allocator) throws IOException {
>
>         List<ArrowRecordBatch> recordBatchList = new ArrayList<>();
>         Schema schema = null;
>         for (String blockIdStr : blockIdList) {
>             byte[] blockId = ByteBufUtil.decodeHexDump(blockIdStr);
>             if (!plasmaClient.contains(blockId)) {
>                 throw new 
> CIMemStoreException(CiMmeStoreResultEnum.BlockNotFoundException);
>             }
>             ByteBuffer buffer = plasmaClient.getObjAsByteBuffer(blockId, 0, 
> false);
>             byte[] bytes = new byte[buffer.capacity()];
>             buffer.get(bytes);
>             plasmaClient.release(blockId);
>             ByteArrayInputStream byteArrayInputStream = new 
> ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
>             ReadableByteChannel readableByteChannel = 
> Channels.newChannel(byteArrayInputStream);
>             ReadChannel readChannel = new ReadChannel(readableByteChannel);
>             schema = MessageSerializer.deserializeSchema(readChannel);
>             ArrowRecordBatch arrowRecordBatch = 
> MessageSerializer.deserializeRecordBatch(readChannel, allocator);
>             recordBatchList.add(arrowRecordBatch);
>
>         }
>         return recordBatchList;
>     }
>
>
> Is there a way to put a list of ArrowRecordBatch to Plasma with one singe
> id?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Reply via email to