Hi Abhilash,
Any data model change will require rebuild so far.
Our practices is to clone existing cube metadata as new one and add
extra measure/dimension or make changes, then build it.
Once new one ready, disable old one.
Hope this will help you.
Thanks.
Luke
Best Regards!
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Luke Han
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Abhilash L L <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure, we will try out refresh
>
>
> What do you suggest in case there are some changes in the schema / extra
> measures etc
>
> Regards,
> Abhilash
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Li Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Assuming the cube definition does not change, all you need is "refresh"
> an
> > existing cube segment. The old cube segment will continue serving until
> the
> > new build is complete. No down time during the whole process.
> >
> > Try "refresh"
> >
> >
> >
> > On Friday, January 29, 2016, hongbin ma <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > have you ever checked out the "refresh" function for cubes?
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Abhilash L L <[email protected]
> > > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > > We have a use case where we want to rebuild the cube with an updated
> > data
> > > > set without downtime on requests
> > > >
> > > > Lets say we have cube C1.
> > > > We get some new data and we rebuild the cube.
> > > > Lets call this C2 with the new data. (Assume no change to cube
> > structure)
> > > >
> > > > When C2 is building, we want C1 to be still serving requests.
> > > > Once C2 is done building, we hot swap C1 with C2
> > > >
> > > > This way there is no downtime on the requests (even if it is, its
> very
> > > > less)
> > > >
> > > > Another problem is, since it has to use the same hive table names and
> > > > schema as C1, we can recreate the tables (external) pointing to the
> > data
> > > > for C2
> > > >
> > > > We cannot use the incremental cube data addition since as of now its
> > > hard
> > > > to figure out of the change set.
> > > >
> > > > What is the best way to achieve this ?
> > > >
> > > > Assumption:
> > > > Since we cannot have two cubes with same name under same project, we
> > need
> > > > two different cubes.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Abhilash
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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