[IMPALA-7204] Add support for GROUP BY ROLLUP, CUBE and GROUPING SETS

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Impala 3.0, Impala 2.12.0
• Component/s: Backend
• Labels: sql-language tpc-ds
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Epic Color: ghx-label-8
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ruslan Dautkhanov
• Created: 23/Jun/18 16:42
• Updated: 25/Jun/20 22:46

Description

Now suppose that we'd like to analyze our sales data, to study the amount of sales that is occurring for different products, in different states and regions. Using the ROLLUP feature of SQL 2003, we could issue the query:

select region, state, product, sum(sales) total_sales
from sales_history 
group by rollup (region, state, product)

Semantically, the above query is equivalent to

 

select region, state, product, sum(sales) total_sales
from sales_history 
group by region, state, product
union
select region, state, null, sum(sales) total_sales
from sales_history 
group by region, state
union
select region, null, null, sum(sales) total_sales
from sales_history 
group by region
union
select null, null, null, sum(sales) total_sales
from sales_history
 

The query might produce results that looked something like:

REGION STATE PRODUCT TOTAL_SALES
------ ----- ------- -----------
null null null 6200
EAST MA BOATS 100
EAST MA CARS 1500
EAST MA null 1600
EAST NY BOATS 150
EAST NY CARS 1000
EAST NY null 1150
EAST null null 2750
WEST CA BOATS 750
WEST CA CARS 500
WEST CA null 1250
WEST AZ BOATS 2000
WEST AZ CARS 200
WEST AZ null 2200
WEST null null 3450

We have a lot of production queries that work around this missing Impala functionality by having three UNION ALLs. Physical execution plan shows Impala actually reads full fact table three times. So it could be a three times improvement (or more, depending on number of columns that are being rolled up).

I can't find another SQL on Hadoop engine that doesn't support this feature.
Checked Spark, Hive, PIG, Flink and some other engines - they all do support this basic SQL feature.

Would be great to have a matching feature in Impala too.

Issue Links

• depends upon: IMPALA-110 Add support for multiple distinct operators in the same query block
• is duplicated by: IMPALA-9298 Support Cube, Grouping Sets and Rollup to enhanced group by clause
• relates to: FLINK-5303 Add CUBE/ROLLUP/GROUPING SETS operator in SQL
• relates to: HIVE-2397 Support with rollup option for group by
• relates to: SPARK-2663 Support the GroupingSet/ROLLUP/CUBE
• relates to: PIG-4066 An optimization for ROLLUP operation in Pig

Sub-Tasks

• Support distinct aggregates and grouping sets in the same query block: Open