[SOLR-14470] Add streaming expressions to /export handler

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.6
• Component/s: Export Writer, streaming expressions
• Assignee: Andrzej Bialecki
• Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
• Created: 11/May/20 17:12
• Updated: 09/Oct/20 13:06
• Resolved: 08/Jun/20 14:37

Description

Many streaming scenarios would greatly benefit from the ability to perform partial rollups (or other transformations) as early as possible, in order to minimize the amount of data that has to be sent from shards to the aggregating node.

This can be implemented as a subset of streaming expressions that process the data directly inside each local ExportHandler and outputs only the records from the resulting stream.

Conceptually it would be similar to the way Hadoop Combiner works. As is the case with Combiner, because the input data is processed in batches there would be no guarantee that only 1 record per unique sort values would be emitted - in fact, in most cases multiple partial aggregations would be emitted. Still, in many scenarios this would allow reducing the amount of data to be sent by several orders of magnitude.

Issue Links

• is related to: SOLR-14729 Investigate and harden TestExportWriter.testExpr failures
• is related to: SOLR-14481 Add drill Streaming Expression for efficient and accurate high cardinality aggregation
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1506