apache / apache/datafusion-ballista
Offload listing files and inferring stats workload to Executors for large tables(>10K+ files)
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- Rust
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Listing files and inferring stats will become a bottleneck for large tables.
Need to offload the work to Executors.
Ballista need to extend the current ListingTable implementations.
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Research direction
Start by tracing the current ListingTable implementations and how Executors are used in Ballista. The issue does not name files or tests; done would mean listing files and inferring statistics for large tables are offloaded to Executors without the current bottleneck.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100