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cgivre commented on pull request #2024: DRILL-7641 Convert Excel Reader to use
Streaming Reader
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2024
# [DRILL-7641](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-7641): Convert
Excel Reader to use Streaming Reader
## Description
The current implementation of the Excel reader uses the Apache POI reader,
which uses excessive amounts of memory. As a result, attempting to read large
Excel files will cause out of memory errors.
This PR converts the format plugin to use a streaming reader, based still on
the POI library. The documentation for the streaming reader can be found here.
[1]. This library was billed as a drop in replacement for the POI reader,
however I had to make some minor changes to the batch reader to get this to
work. Minor code cleanup as well.
[1]: https://github.com/pjfanning/excel-streaming-reader
## Documentation
No user visible changes.
## Testing
All unit tests from the original plugin pass. Additionally, I tested this
with large Excel files on my local machine and Drill was able to query them
whereas before this PR, Drill would run out of memory.
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> Convert Excel Reader to Use Streaming Reader
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>
> Key: DRILL-7641
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-7641
> Project: Apache Drill
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Storage - Text & CSV
> Affects Versions: 1.17.0
> Reporter: Charles Givre
> Assignee: Charles Givre
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.18.0
>
>
> The current implementation of the Excel reader uses the Apache POI reader,
> which uses excessive amounts of memory. As a result, attempting to read large
> Excel files will cause out of memory errors.
> This PR converts the format plugin to use a streaming reader, based still on
> the POI library. The documentation for the streaming reader can be found
> here. [1]
> All unit tests pass and I tested the plugin with some large Excel files on my
> computer.
> [1]: [https://github.com/pjfanning/excel-streaming-reader]
>
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