Weird, which version did you use? Just tried a small snippet in Spark 1.2.0 shell as follows, the result showed in the web UI meets the expectation quite well:

|import  org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext
import  sc._

val  sqlContext  =  new  SQLContext(sc)
import  sqlContext._

jsonFile("file:///tmp/p.json").registerTempTable("tbl")
cacheTable("tbl")
sql("select * from tbl").collect()
sql("select name from tbl").collect()
|

The input data of the first statement is 292KB, the second is 49.1KB.

The JSON file I used is |examples/src/main/resources/people.json|, I copied its contents multiple times to generate a larger file.

Cheng

On 1/8/15 7:43 PM, Xuelin Cao wrote:



Hi, Cheng

I checked the Input data for each stage. For example, in my attached screen snapshot, the input data is 1212.5MB, which is the total amount of the whole table

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And, I also check the input data for each task (in the stage detail page). And the sum of the input data for each task is also 1212.5MB




On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Cheng Lian <lian.cs....@gmail.com <mailto:lian.cs....@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Hey Xuelin, which data item in the Web UI did you check?


    On 1/7/15 5:37 PM, Xuelin Cao wrote:

    Hi,

          Curious and curious. I'm puzzled by the Spark SQL cached table.

          Theoretically, the cached table should be columnar table,
    and only scan the column that included in my SQL.

          However, in my test, I always see the whole table is
    scanned even though I only "select" one column in my SQL.

          Here is my code:

    /val sqlContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext(sc)
    /
    /import sqlContext._
    /
    /sqlContext.jsonFile("/data/ad.json").registerTempTable("adTable")
    /
    /sqlContext.cacheTable("adTable")  //The table has > 10 columns/
    /
    /
    ///First run, cache the table into memory//
    /
    /sqlContext.sql("select * from adTable").collect/
    /
    /
    ///Second run, only one column is used. It should only scan a
    small fraction of data//
    /
    /sqlContext.sql("select adId from adTable").collect /
    /sqlContext.sql("select adId from adTable").collect
    /
    /sqlContext.sql("select adId from adTable").collect/

            What I found is, every time I run the SQL, in WEB UI, it
    shows the total amount of input data is always the same --- the
    total amount of the table.

            Is anything wrong? My expectation is:
            1. The cached table is stored as columnar table
            2. Since I only need one column in my SQL, the total
    amount of input data showed in WEB UI should be very small

            But what I found is totally not the case. Why?

            Thanks



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