[ASTERIXDB-1433] Multiple cores with huge memory slow down in the big fact table aggregation.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: CLUS - Cluster management
• Environment: 10 nodes X Linux ubuntu/6 cpu X 4 cores/per cpu, 128 GB memory/per node.
• Assignee: Murtadha Makki Al Hubail
• Reporter: Wenhai Li
• Created: 11/May/16 12:26
• Updated: 18/May/16 04:16
• Resolved: 18/May/16 04:16

Description

This is a classic hardware platform that shoes up the TB scale of dataset in total. AsterixDB does extremely well for the complex query that includes multiple join operators over a high-selectivity select operator. However, the running trace results demonstrate that, as compared to the big memory configurations, the original tables is always re-loaded from the disk to the actual memory even they have been handled in the latest query. To this end, why not provide the strategy to keep the intermediate data of the last completed query into the memory and free them in case the memory is not enough for the newly query. In some case, the user will always trigger the query with the different parameters on the same tables, for example, the variant-parameter aggregation on the single big fact table.