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Dominik Wagenknecht edited comment on PHOENIX-914 at 9/30/14 7:20 AM:
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As far as I understand this discussion this is not so much about setting (this 
can still be done with the aforementioned Properties) the timestamp or really 
"using" multiple versions, but about _getting_ and _querying_ on it. In our 
system we have one job that we run every night to compare upsert (= cell) 
timestamps to other timestamps that are stored as normal "columns" and we had 
to do that with a standard HBase SCAN (in a Map/Reduce job) and use (internal) 
Phoenix API to convert the normal column byte[]s written by phoenix into a 
"real" Timestamp.

So here my suggestion: Instead of a "magic" Hint, wouldn't it solve the entire 
thing by providing a function, e.g. {{CELL_TIME}} that can be applied on both 
sides, e.g.:

{{SELECT mytime, CELL_TIME(mytime) AS mytime_cell FROM ...}} or
{{SELECT col_a, col_b, col_c FROM xzy WHERE CELL_TIME(col_a) > 2014-09-30...}}

To apply this for all elements in a row in a query (like querying "history", if 
you really want to _actively_ use HBase's Cell-Timestamp which will always be 
strange in SQL as it doesn't feature any _cell_ notation in its core logic) 
additional functions could be provided that provide the minimum cell time over 
a range of columns, etc...


was (Author: ledominik):
As far as I understand this discussion this is not so much about really setting 
the timestamp or really "using" multiple versions, but about _getting_ and 
_querying_ on it. In our system we have one job that we run every night to 
compare upsert (= cell) timestamps to other timestamps that are stored as 
normal "columns" and we had to do that with a standard HBase SCAN (in a 
Map/Reduce job) and use (internal) Phoenix API to convert the normal column 
byte[]s written by phoenix into a "real" Timestamp.

So here my suggestion: Instead of a "magic" Hint, wouldn't it solve the entire 
thing by providing a function, e.g. {{CELL_TIME}} that can be applied on both 
sides, e.g.:

{{SELECT mytime, CELL_TIME(mytime) AS mytime_cell FROM ...}} or
{{SELECT col_a, col_b, col_c FROM xzy WHERE CELL_TIME(col_a) > 2014-09-30...}}

To apply this for all elements in a row in a query (like querying "history", if 
you really want to _actively_ use HBase's Cell-Timestamp which will always be 
strange in SQL as it doesn't feature any _cell_ notation in its core logic) 
additional functions could be provided that provide the minimum cell time over 
a range of columns, etc...

> Native HBase timestamp support to optimize date range queries in Phoenix 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PHOENIX-914
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-914
>             Project: Phoenix
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 4.0.0
>            Reporter: Vladimir Rodionov
>            Assignee: Vladimir Rodionov
>
> For many applications one of the column of a table can be (and must be) 
> naturally mapped 
> to HBase timestamp. What it gives us is the optimization on StoreScanner 
> where HFiles with timestamps out of range of
> a Scan operator will be omitted. Let us say that we have time-series type of 
> data (EVENTS) and custom compaction, where we create 
> series of HFiles with continuous non-overlapping timestamp ranges.
> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ODS.EVENTS (
>     METRICID  VARCHAR NOT NULL,
>     METRICNAME VARCHAR,
>     SERVICENAME VARCHAR NOT NULL,
>     ORIGIN VARCHAR NOT NULL,
>     APPID VARCHAR,
>     IPID VARCHAR,
>     NVALUE DOUBLE,
>     TIME TIMESTAMP NOT NULL  /+ TIMESTAMP +/,
>     DATA VARCHAR,
>     SVALUE VARCHAR
>     CONSTRAINT PK PRIMARY KEY (METRICID, SERVICENAME, ORIGIN, APPID, IPID, 
> TIME)
> ) SALT_BUCKETS=40, IMMUTABLE_ROWS=true,VERSIONS=1,DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING='NONE';
> Make note on   TIME TIMESTAMP NOT NULL  /+ TIMESTAMP +/ - this is the Hint to 
> Phoenix that the column
> TIME must be mapped to HBase timestamp. 
> The Query:
> Select all events of type 'X' for last 7 days
> SELECT * from EVENTS WHERE METRICID = 'X' and TIME < NOW() and TIME > NOW() - 
> 7*24*3600000; (this may be not correct SQL syntax of course)
> These types of queries will be efficiently optimized if:
> 1. Phoenix maps  TIME column to HBase timestamp
> 2. Phoenix smart enough to map WHERE clause on TIME attribute to Scan 
> timerange 
> Although this :
> Properties props = new Properties();
> props.setProperty(PhoenixRuntime.CURRENT_SCN_ATTRIB, Long.toString(ts));
> Connection conn = DriverManager.connect(myUrl, props);
> conn.createStatement().execute("UPSERT INTO myTable VALUES ('a')");
> conn.commit();
> will work in my case- it may not be efficient from performance point of view 
> because for every INSERT/UPSERT 
> new Connection object and new Statement is created, beside this we still need 
> the optimization 2. (see above). 



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