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Julian Hyde commented on CALCITE-3221:
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Are you suggesting concatenation followed by hash-distinct? That’s what we do
today, I think.
I think union-merge is a useful alternative in the case where the inputs are
sorted, and possibly if the output needs to be sorted and the inputs are not.
> Add a sort-merge union algorithm
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>
> Key: CALCITE-3221
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-3221
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: 1.19.0
> Reporter: Stamatis Zampetakis
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: screenshot-1.png
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> Currently, the union operation offered by Calcite is based on a {{HashSet}}
> (see
> [EnumerableDefaults.union|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/d98856bf1a5f5c151d004b769e14bdd368a67234/linq4j/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/linq4j/EnumerableDefaults.java#L2747])
> and necessitates reading in memory all rows before returning a single
> result.
> Apart from increased memory consumption the operator is blocking and also
> destroys the order of its inputs.
> The goal of this issue is to add a new union algorithm (EnumerableMergeUnion
> ?) exploiting the fact that the inputs are sorted which consumes less memory
> and retains the order of its inputs.
> Most likely the implementation of the merge join can be useful.
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