[PIG-4504] Enable Secondary key sort feature in spark mode

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: spark-branch
• Component/s: spark
• Assignee: liyunzhang
• Reporter: liyunzhang
• Created: 13/Apr/15 06:53
• Updated: 21/Jun/17 09:18
• Resolved: 15/May/15 13:00

Description

Some knowledge about secondary key sort:
MapReduce framework automatically sorts the keys generated by mappers. This means that, before starting reducers all intermediate (key, value) pairs generated by mappers must be sorted by key (and not by value). Values passed to each reducer are not sorted at all and they can be in any order. But if we make (key,value) as a compound key, let (key, value) pairs changes to ((key,value), null) pairs. Here we call (key,value) as compound key, key is the first key, value is the secondary key. In the shuffle process, pairs with the same first key will be grouped into the same partition by setting PartitionerClass in the JobConf . Pairs with the same first key but different secondary key will be sorted in the process of shuffle by setting SortComparatorClass in the JobConf. Pairs with the same first key but different secondary key will be transferred to the same reduce function by setting GroupingComparatorClass in the JobConf.

How pig implements secondary key sort in mapreduce mode?
In MR: it implements secondary key sort by setting GroupingComparatorClass, PartitionerClass, SortComparatorClass in JobControlCompiler#getJob

An example use secondary key sort:
TestAccumulator#testAccumWithSort

Currently, secondary key sort feature is not implement in spark mode.

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-3655 Support sorting of values in addition to keys (i.e. secondary sort)
• links to: review board