Maryann Xue created SPARK-24596:
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Summary: Non-cascading Cache Invalidation
Key: SPARK-24596
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-24596
Project: Spark
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: SQL
Affects Versions: 2.3.0
Reporter: Maryann Xue
Fix For: 2.4.0
When invalidating a cache, we invalid other caches dependent on this cache to
ensure cached data is up to date. For example, when the underlying table has
been modified or the table has been dropped itself, all caches that use this
table should be invalidated or refreshed.
However, in other cases, like when user simply want to drop a cache to free up
memory, we do not need to invalidate dependent caches since no underlying data
has been changed. For this reason, we would like to introduce a new cache
invalidation mode: the non-cascading cache invalidation. And we choose between
the existing mode and the new mode for different cache invalidation scenarios:
# Drop tables and regular (persistent) views: regular mode
# Drop temporary views: non-cascading mode
# Modify table contents (INSERT/UPDATE/MERGE/DELETE): regular mode
# Call DataSet.unpersist(): non-cascading mode
Note that a regular (persistent) view is a database object just like a table,
so after dropping a regular view (whether cached or not cached), any query
referring to that view should no long be valid. Hence if a cached persistent
view is dropped, we need to invalidate the all dependent caches so that
exceptions will be thrown for any later reference. On the other hand, a
temporary view is in fact equivalent to an unnamed DataSet, and dropping a
temporary view should have no impact on queries referencing that view. Thus we
should do non-cascading uncaching for temporary views, which also guarantees a
consistent uncaching behavior between temporary views and unnamed DataSets.
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