[PHOENIX-3271] Distribute UPSERT SELECT across cluster

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.10.0
• Assignee: Ankit Singhal
• Reporter: James R. Taylor
• Created: 12/Sep/16 19:08
• Updated: 14/Mar/17 18:45
• Resolved: 31/Jan/17 06:35

Description

Based on some informal testing we've done, it seems that creation of a local index is orders of magnitude faster that creation of global indexes (17 seconds versus 10-20 minutes - though more data is written in the global index case). Under the covers, a global index is created through the running of an UPSERT SELECT. Also, UPSERT SELECT provides an easy way of copying a table. In both of these cases, the data being upserted must all flow back to the same client which can become a bottleneck for a large table. Instead, what can be done is to push each separate, chunked UPSERT SELECT call out to a different region server for execution there. One way we could implement this would be to have an endpoint coprocessor push the chunked UPSERT SELECT out to each region server and return the number of rows that were upserted back to the client.