Github user dyozie commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-hawq-docs/pull/59#discussion_r87916763 --- Diff: bestpractices/querying_data_bestpractices.html.md.erb --- @@ -4,6 +4,23 @@ title: Best Practices for Querying Data To obtain the best results when querying data in HAWQ, review the best practices described in this topic. +## <a id="virtual_seg_performance"></a>Factors Impacting Query Performance + +The number of virtual segments used for a query directly impacts the query's performance. The following factors can impact the degree of parallelism of a query: + +- **Cost of the query**. Small queries use fewer segments and larger queries use more segments. Some techniques used in defining resource queues can influence the number of both virtual segments and general resources allocated to queries. For more information, see [Best Practices for Using Resource Queues](managing_resources_bestpractices.html#topic_hvd_pls_wv). +- **Available resources at query time**. If more resources are available in the resource queue, those resources will be used. +- **Hash table and bucket number**. If the query involves only hash-distributed tables, the query's parallelism is fixed (equal to the hash table bucket number) under the following conditions: + - the bucket number (bucketnum) configured for all the hash tables is the same bucket number for all tables + - the table size for random tables is no more than 1.5 times larger than the size allotted for the hash tables. + + Otherwise, the number of virtual segments depends on the query's cost: hash-distributed table queries will behave like queries on randomly distributed tables. --- End diff -- remote "will" here, and change to "randomly-distributed"
--- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---