Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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0.3.0
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Description
Currently all bags resulting from a group or cogroup are materialized as bags containing all of the contents. The issue with this is that if a particular key has many corresponding values, all these values get stuffed in a bag which may run out of memory and hence spill causing slow down in performance and sometime memory exceptions. In many cases, the udfs which use these bags coming out a group and cogroup only need to iterate over the bag in a unidirectional read-once manner. This can be implemented by having the bag implement its iterator by simply iterating over the underlying hadoop iterator provided in the reduce. This kind of a bag is also needed in http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-802. So the code can be reused for this issue too. The other part of this issue is to have some way for the udfs to communicate to Pig that any input bags that they need are "read once" bags . This can be achieved by having an Interface - say "UsesReadOnceBags " which is serves as a tag to indicate the intent to Pig. Pig can then rewire its execution plan to use ReadOnceBags is feasible.