1. Konstantine Krutiy
Principal Engineer, Crew Lead

2. PATH TO EXTRA PERFORMANCE
Eliminate unneeded work
§ Choose data types wisely
Eliminate unneeded waits
§ Reduce number of locks
Make system operate in more efficient way
§ Optimize BIOS settings
§ Stay in same “technology slice”
§ Make sure you have enough RAM

3. ART OF CHOOSING DATATYPES

4. WHY DATA TYPE MATTERS ?

5. WHY DATA TYPE MATTERS ?
Fastest CPU today is 3.7 GHz
It takes
1 / 3,700,000,000 of a second
to do single operation

6. WHY DATA TYPE MATTERS ?
Fastest CPU today is 3.7 GHz
It takes
1 / 3,700,000,000 of a second
to do single operation
“BIG DATA” record set
starts from
100 billion records

7. WHY DATA TYPE MATTERS ?
Fastest CPU today is 3.7 GHz
It takes
1 / 3,700,000,000 of a second
to do single operation
“BIG DATA” record set
starts from
100 billion records
Processing time
1 / 3,700,000,000 sec X 100,000,000,000 = 27 sec

8. DO YOU NEED TO STORE DATA SAME
WAY IT IS PRESENTED ?

9. DO YOU NEED TO STORE DATA SAME
WAY IT IS PRESENTED ?
Presentation: $395.17

10. DO YOU NEED TO STORE DATA SAME
WAY IT IS PRESENTED ?
Presentation: $395.17
Data: 395.17

11. DO YOU NEED TO STORE DATA SAME
WAY IT IS PRESENTED ?
Presentation: $395.17
Data: 395.17
Storage: Store as Money
Data type: MONEY
Internal data type: NUMERIC(18,4)
Storage: Store as numeric
Data type: NUMERIC
Internal data type: NUMERIC(37,15)
Storage: Store as integer
Data type: INT
Internal data type: INT

12. DO YOU NEED TO STORE DATA SAME
WAY IT IS PRESENTED ?
Presentation: $395.17
Data: 395.17
Storage: Store as Money
Data type: MONEY
Internal data type: NUMERIC(18,4)
Storage: Store as numeric
Data type: NUMERIC
Internal data type: NUMERIC(37,15)
Storage: Store as integer
Data type: INT
Internal data type: INT

13. DATA TYPE BENCHMARK DATA

14. DATA TYPE BENCHMARK AVERAGES IN SEC
27.2
29.7
37
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
INT NUMERIC(18,5) NUMERIC(37,15)

15. MAKING RIGHT CHOICES
• If you can store data as INTEGER
• Choose INTEGER
• If your data fits into 18 digits of PRECISION
• Choose NUMERIC(18)
• If your data larger then 18 digits of PRECISION
• Choose NUMERIC(your-desired-precision)
Vertica default for NUMERIC is NUMERIC(37,15)

16. ELIMINATING UNNECESSARY LOCKING

17. LOCKING BEHAVIOR
AUTOCOMMIT = ON (jdbc driver default)
§ Each statement treated as complete transaction
§ When statement completes changes automatically
committed to database
AUTOCOMMIT = OFF
§ Transaction continue until manually run COMMIT or
ROLLBACK
§ Locks kept on objects for transaction duration

18. CONTROLLING AUTOCOMMIT STATE
JAVA:
conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:vertica://DBHost:5433/MyDB", myProperties);
// get the state of the auto commit parameter
System.out.println("Autocommit state: " + conn.getAutoCommit());
// Change the auto commit state to false
conn.setAutoCommit(false);
SQL:

19. IMPACT ON LOCK COUNTS BY CHANGING
AUTOCOMMIT SETTING TO OFF

20. HOW TO DISABLE – OBVIOUS METHOD

21. HOW TO DISABLE – BETTER METHOD

22. BIOS SETTINGS OPTIMIZATIONS

23. WHAT IS TUNABLE IN BIOS?

24. HOW TO TUNE ?
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01804533.pdf

25. DOES IT REALLY MATTER ?
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
DSS BIOS settings with 1x
DRAM refresh rate
DSS BIOS settings with 4x
DRAM refresh rate
HPC BIOS settings with 4x
DRAM refresh rate
HPC + HyperThreading BIOS
settings with 4x DRAM
refresh rate
HPC - NO TurboBoost BIOS
settings with 4x DRAM
refresh rate
Sec
DSS
BIOS
se)ngs
with
1x
DRAM
refresh
rate
738.949439
DSS
BIOS
se)ngs
with
4x
DRAM
refresh
rate
745.111176
HPC
BIOS
se)ngs
with
4x
DRAM
refresh
rate
552.148285
HPC
+
HyperThreading
BIOS
se)ngs
with
4x
DRAM
refresh
rate
877.838469
HPC
-­‐
NO
TurboBoost
BIOS
se)ngs
with
4x
DRAM
refresh
rate
561.260084
Performance
increase potential
about 40%

26. WHAT TUNING DOC SAYS ?

27. STAYING IN THE SAME “TECHNOLOGY SLICE”

28. WHAT I WILL BE SLICING THROUGH ???
CPU and chipset
Hardware
Operating System (OS)
Database Management System (DBMS)

29. WHAT IS “TECHNOLOGY SLICE” ANYWAY ???
CPU Gen3 CPU Gen4
Server Gen-B
OS v. 36
DBMS v. 6
Server Gen-C
OS v. 37
DBMS v. 7
CPU Gen5
Server
Gen-D
CPU Gen6 CPU Gen7
Server Gen-E
Srv
Gen
F
OS v. 38
Server
Gen-A
OS v. 35OS v. 34
DBMS v. 5DBMS v. 4DBMS v. 3

30. WHAT IS “TECHNOLOGY SLICE” ANYWAY ???
CPU Gen3 CPU Gen4
Server Gen-B
OS v. 36
DBMS v. 6
Server Gen-C
OS v. 37
DBMS v. 7
CPU Gen5
Server
Gen-D
CPU Gen6 CPU Gen7
Server Gen-E
Srv
Gen
F
OS v. 38
Server
Gen-A
OS v. 35OS v. 34
DBMS v. 5DBMS v. 4DBMS v. 3

31. COMMON “TECHNOLOGY SLICE” TRAP
CPU Gen3 CPU Gen4
✔
Server Gen-B
OS v. 36
DBMS v. 6
Server Gen-C
✔
OS v. 37
✔
DBMS v. 7
✔
CPU Gen5
Server
Gen-D
CPU Gen6 CPU Gen7
Server Gen-E
Srv
Gen
F
OS v. 38
Server
Gen-A
OS v. 35OS v. 34
DBMS v. 5DBMS v. 4DBMS v. 3

32. COMMON “TECHNOLOGY SLICE” TRAP
CPU Gen3 CPU Gen4
✔
Server Gen-B
OS v. 36
DBMS v. 6
Server Gen-C
✔
OS v. 37
✔
DBMS v. 7
✔
CPU Gen5
Server
Gen-D
CPU Gen6 CPU Gen7
Server Gen-E
Srv
Gen
F
OS v. 38
Server
Gen-A
OS v. 35OS v. 34
DBMS v. 5DBMS v. 4DBMS v. 3
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?

33. SYMPTOMS OF “TECHNOLOGY SLICE” ISSUES
System AVG: 57.90
Nice AVG: 46.56
System AVG > Nice AVG
System AVG / Nice AVG = 1.24
System AVG: 11.19
Nice AVG: 57.38
System AVG < Nice AVG
System AVG / Nice AVG = 0.19

34. “TECHNOLOGY SLICE” PERFORMANCE IMPACT
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
different “TECHNOLOGY SLICE” kernel proper “TECHNOLOGY SLICE” kernel
Sec

35. SUFFICIENT RAM CALCULATIONS

36. DO I REALLY NEED MORE RAM ?
select event_type, count(1) from query_events group by event_type order by 2 desc;
Spilled events are very good
indication of queries not fitting in
RAM

37. HOW I CAN QUANTIFY IMPACT ?
select 'event_timestamp' as timestamp_type,
min(event_timestamp) as min_timestamp,
max(event_timestamp) as max_timestamp from query_events
union
select 'query_timestamp' as timestamp_type,
min(start_timestamp) as min_timestamp,
max(start_timestamp) as max_timestamp from query_requests;
System tables in Vertica have
individual rolling window. Make
sure you understand relation of
histories available.

38. HOW I CAN QUANTIFY IMPACT ? CONT.
select spilled_queries, total_qieries, round( spilled_queries / total_qieries * 100 , 2 ) as spilled_queries_percent
from
(select count(1) as total_qieries from query_requests
where request_type = 'QUERY' and start_timestamp > (select min(event_timestamp) from query_events)) query_data,
(select count(1) as spilled_queries
from (select session_id, transaction_id, statement_id from query_events
where event_type ilike '%SPILLED%' group by session_id, transaction_id, statement_id) spill_data) spill_data2;
Amount of spilled queries in
relation to entire query volume.

39. CAN MY SPILLED DATA FIT IN TO RAM ?
select min(counter_value) as min_bytes_spilled,
max(counter_value) as max_bytes_spilled,
avg(counter_value) as avg_bytes_spilled
from execution_engine_profiles
where counter_name = 'bytes spilled' and counter_value > 0;
Understanding size of
spillage to disk.

40. WHO CAUSING SPILLS ?
select user_name, count(1) as spill_event_count
from query_events where event_type ilike '%SPILLED%' group by user_name order by 2 desc;
In Vertica RAM allocated to queries
through resource pools. Resource
pools connected to users. Knowing
user will point us to resource pool,
which needs tuning.

41. WHAT I SHOULD TUNE ?
select distinct resource_pool from users where user_name in ('peter', 'john');
Identified resource pool with
spilled queries. Now we know
what to tune.

42. The resource pool parameters of
MEMORYSIZE and
PLANNEDCONCURRENCY provide the
options that let you tune the target
memory allocated to queries.
WHAT I SHOULD CHANGE ?
HP Vertica Analytics Platform Version 7.1.x Documentation
Administrator's Guide
Managing the Database
Managing Workloads
Resource Pool Architecture
Target Memory Determination for Queries in Concurrent Environments

43. Q & A