Amogh Margoor created CALCITE-786:
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             Summary: Detect if materialized view can be used to rewrite a 
query in non-trivial cases
                 Key: CALCITE-786
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-786
             Project: Calcite
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 1.3.0-incubating, 1.4.0-incubating
            Reporter: Amogh Margoor
            Assignee: Julian Hyde
            Priority: Minor


Improvement to detection if MV can be used to rewrite queries in non-trivial 
cases.

Pasting the email conversation below that happened over this which briefly 
discusses the approach taken:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Amogh Margoor <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Detect if materialized view can be used to rewrite a query in 
non-trivial cases
To: [email protected], Rajat Venkatesh <[email protected]>


Hi Julian,

Thanks a lot Julian for your feedback. I have inlined my response below which 
also includes the commit done.

Regards,
Amogh

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:

    This is great work. Certainly consistent with where I am heading.

    I would not be inclined to use DNF (because of its tendency to inflate
    certain predicates) but if you are able to get something effective I
    will happily use it. I think you should package it behind a method --
    "find out what is left to satisfy p when you have already satisfied q"
    or something -- and write lots of tests of that method, and it doesn't
    really matter what algorithm is behind it.

    Take a look at SubstitutionVisitor.simplfy(RexNode) and how it focuses
    on finding whether

      p1 AND p2 AND p3 AND NOT (q1 AND q2 AND q3)

    is satisfiable.


>> I saw this method. I will try to use this in improvements to follow.
>> It didnot seem to solve this currently: (x>10 => x>30)  i.e., find if 
>>  NOT (NOT(x>10 )  OR  x >30) is satisfiable. 
>> We have currently packaged it as "if X => Y" (see RexImplicationChecker 
>> in the commit I shared below), but agree it should be 
>> more generic like what you suggested above and something we can try to 
>> achieve.


    Later we will want to know not just "can I satisfy query Q using
    materialization M?" but "can I satisfy part of Q using M, and what is
    left over?". I can convert most of Q to use an aggregate table over
    years 2012 .. 2014 and 2015 Jan - May, and then scan the raw data for
    June 1st onwards, that is a big win.


>> This certainly should be something we should aim at. 


    What branch are you working on? Your master branch
    https://github.com/qubole/incubator-calcite/tree/master seems to be
    the same as apache/master right now.

>> We work on https://github.com/qubole/incubator-calcite/tree/qds-1.3 .
>> This is the commit: 
>> https://github.com/qubole/incubator-calcite/pull/1/files?diff=unified
>> We are in the process of writing UTs for it. We did most of the testing 
>> through our client code till now.
>> We have created new Visitor extending SustitutionVisitor because did not 
>> want to mess with the existing code.
>> More rules need to be added to the new Visitor.  
>> Will raise a PR once UTs are added and testing is complete.
  

    If you can divide this work into pull requests with unit tests, I will
    happy commit each change as you make progress.

    By the way, I logged a few jira cases connected to materialized view
    rewrite today. They were motivated by the phoenix team wanting to use
    secondary indexes. But they could by applied to any scan-project-sort
    materialization. See

    * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-771
    * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-772
    * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-773 


>> Thanks for sharing this info Julian. Will definitely take a look. 


    Julian

    On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Amogh Margoor <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Hi,
    > We were working on a problem to detect if materialized view can be used to
    > rewrite a query in non-trivial cases. Will briefly describe the problem 
and
    > approach below and would appreciate feedback on the same.
    >
    > Motivation
    > ---------------
    > For instance there exists a table "logs" and a partition (materialized
    > view)  named "log_after_01_Jan" created on it and described by SQL :
    > "Select * from logs where log_date > '01-01-2015' ".
    >
    > Assume that the table "log_after_01_Jan" is much smaller than  table 
"logs".
    >
    >  For user query:
    > "Select log_body from logs where log_date > '03-03-2015' and
    > char_length(log_body) < 100",
    > we should detect that the materialized view "log_after_01_Jan" can be used
    > and transform the query into:
    >
    > "Select log_body from log_after_01_Jan where log_date > '03-03-2015' and
    > char_length(log_body) < 100"
    >
    > Approach
    > --------------
    > One of the fundamental problems we would come across here is to check if a
    > boolean condition X implies (=>) Y. This quickly reduces to the
    > Satisfiability problem which is NP complete for propositional logic. But
    > there are many instances like above which can be detected easily. We have
    > implemented an approach to handle several useful cases for few operators
    > and types of operands. Will be extending it further for more types of
    > operations.
    >
    > Top Level approach:
    >
    > 1. Currently, VolcanoPlanner:useMaterialization tries to rewrite original
    > query using MV using SubstitutionVisitor. Have extended 
SubstitutionVisitor
    > to detect above cases and do the substitution.
    >
    > 2. To check if a condition X => Y,
    >    a. Convert both of them into Disjunctive Normal Form.
    >        Say X is transformed into  x_1 or x_2 or x_3 ... or x_m and
    >        Y is transformed into y_1 or y_2 ,... or  y_i, where any x_i and 
y_i
    > are conjunctions of atomic predicates.
    >        For instance condition "(a>10 or b>20) and c <90" will be converted
    > to DNF: (a>10 and c<90)  or (b>20 and c<90).
    >
    >    b. For X=>Y to be a tautology i.e., hold always true, every conjunction
    > x_i should imply atleast one of the conjunction y_j.
    >        We wrote some set of simple heuristics to check if a conjunction of
    > atomic predicates implies another.
    >       This also involves executing RexNode using RexImplExecutor.
    >
    > We have checked in code for this in our fork of
    > calcite(qubole/incubator-calcite). This is ongoing work and we will be
    > making many more improvements to it. If this is useful or anybody is
    > interested in giving feedback then I can share the commit so that we can
    > discuss about it and take it forward.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Amogh
    > Member of Technical Staff
    > Qubole 





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