gaojun2048 commented on pull request #1881: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/1881#issuecomment-1056084581
> Yes, the udf plugin is designed for those who use Ballista as a computing engine, but do not want to modify the source code of ballista. We use ballista in production and we need ballista to be able to use our custom udf. As a user of ballista, I am reluctant to modify the source code of ballista directly, because it means that I need to recompile ballista myself, and in the future, when I want to upgrade ballista to the latest version of the community, I need to do more merges work. If I use the udf plugin, I only need to maintain the custom udf code. When I upgrade the version of ballista, I only need to modify the version number of the datafusion dependency in the code, and then recompile these udf dynamic libraries. I believe this is a more friendly way for those who actually use ballista as a computing engine. In my opinion, people who use datafusion and people who use ballista are different people, and the udf plugin is more suitable for ballista than datafusion. 1. People who use datafusion generally develop their own computing engines on the basis of datafusion. In this case, they often do not need udf plugins. They only need to put the udf code into their own computing engines, and they decide for themselves. When to call register_udf to register udf into datafusion. If needed, they can handle the serialization and deserialization of custom UDFs in their own computing engine to achieve distributed scheduling. 2. People who use ballista generally only use ballista as a computing engine. They often do not have a deep understanding of the source code of datafusion. It is very difficult to directly modify the source code of ballista and datafusion. They may update the version of ballista frequently, and modifying the source code of ballista's datafusion means that each upgrade requires merge code and recompile, which is a very big burden for them. In particular, it should be pointed out that there is no way for udf to work in ballista now, because serialization and deserialization of udf need to know the specific implementation of udf, which cannot be achieved without modifying the source code of ballista and datafusion. The role of the udf plugin in this case is very obvious. They only need to maintain their own udf code and do not need to pay attention to the code changes of ballista's datafusion. 3. I don't think scalar_functions and aggregate_functions in ExecutionContext need to be modified as these are for those who use datafusion but not ballista. So I think I should modify the code and migrate the plugin mod into the ballista crate instead of staying in datafusion. Thanks a lot, can you give me more advice on these? -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
