The document provides a performance update on the integration of Apache ORC (version 1.4) with Apache Spark, highlighting the advantages such as speed, stability, and usability improvements. Benchmark tests show that the new ORC format outperforms the old ORC format by over 2x at a 10 TB scale in multiple queries. It outlines ongoing developments and future enhancements aimed at optimizing performance and user experience.

1. PERFORMANCE UPDATE: WHEN
APACHE ORC MET APACHE SPARK
Dongjoon Hyun - dhyun@hortonworks.com
Owen O'Malley - owen@hortonworks.com
@owen_omalley

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Agenda
Performance Update
Spark – Apache ORC 1.4 Integration
Benchmark Overview
Results
Roadmap

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ORC History
 Originally released as part of Hive
– Released in Hive 0.11.0 (2013-05-16)
– Included in each release before Hive 2.3.0 (2017-07-17)
 Factored out of Hive
– Improve integration with other tools
– Shrink the size of the dependencies
– Releases faster than Hive
– Added C++ reader and new C++ writer

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Integration History
 Before Apache ORC
– Hive 1.2.1 (2015-06-27)  SPARK-2883
Since Spark 1.4, Hive ORC is used.
 After Apache ORC
– v1.0.0 (2016-01-25)
– v1.1.0 (2016-06-10)
– v1.2.0 (2016-08-25)
– v1.3.0 (2017-01-23)
– v1.4.0 (2017-05-08)  SPARK-21422
For Spark 2.3, Apache ORC dependency is added and used.

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Integration Design (in HDP 2.6.3 with Spark 2.2)
 Switch between old and new formats by configuration
FileFormat
TextBasedFileFormat
ParquetFileFormat
OrcFileFormat
HiveFileFormat
JsonFileFormat
LibSVMFileFormat
CSVFileFormat
TextFileFormat
o.a.s.sql.execution.datasources
o.a.s.ml.source.libsvmo.a.s.sql.hive.orc
OrcFileFormat
Old OrcFileFormat
from Hive 1.2.1
(SPARK-2883)
New OrcFileFormat
with ORC 1.4.0
(SPARK-21422,
SPARK-20682,
SPARK-20728)

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Benefit in Apache Spark
 Speed
– Use both Spark ColumnarBatch and ORC RowBatch together more seamlessly
 Stability
– Apache ORC 1.4.0 has many fixes and we can depend on ORC community more.
 Usability
– User can use ORC data sources without hive module, i.e, -Phive.
 Maintainability
– Reduce the Hive dependency and can remove old legacy code later.

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Faster and More Scalable
Number of columns
Time
(ms)
Single Column Scan from Wide Tables
(1M rows with all BIGINT columns)
0 500 1000 1500 2000
TINYINT
SMALLINT
INT
BIGINT
FLOAT
DOULBE
OLD NEW
Vectorized Read
(15M rows in a single-column table)
Time
(ms)
0
200
400
600
800
100 200 300
NEW OLD

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Support Matrix
 HDP 2.6.3 is going to add a new faster and stable ORC file format for ORC tables
with the subset of limitations of Apache Spark 2.2.
 The followings are not supported yet
– Zero-byte ORC File
– Schema Evolution
• Adding columns at the end
• Changing types and deleting columns
 Please see the full JIRA issue list in next slides.

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Done Tickets
 SPARK-20901 Feature parity for ORC with Parquet
– The parent ticket of all ORC issues
 Done
– SPARK-20566 ColumnVector should support `appendFloats` for array
– SPARK-21422 Depend on Apache ORC 1.4.0
– SPARK-21831 Remove `spark.sql.hive.convertMetastoreOrc` config in HiveCompatibilitySuite
– SPARK-21839 Support SQL config for ORC compression
– SPARK-21884 Fix StackOverflowError on MetadataOnlyQuery
– SPARK-21912 ORC/Parquet table should not create invalid column names

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On-Going Tickets
 SPARK-20682 Support a new faster ORC data source based on Apache ORC
 SPARK-20728 Make ORCFileFormat configurable between sql/hive and sql/core
 SPARK-16060 Vectorized Orc reader
 SPARK-21791 ORC should support column names with dot
 SPARK-21787 Support for pushing down filters for DATE types in ORC
 SPARK-19809 Zero byte ORC file support
 SPARK-14387 Enable Hive-1.x ORC compatibility with
spark.sql.hive.convertMetastoreOrc

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To-do Tickets
 Configuration
– SPARK-21783 Turn on ORC filter push-down by default
 Read
– SPARK-11412 Support merge schema for ORC
– SPARK-16628 OrcConversions should not convert an ORC table
 Alter
– SPARK-21929 Support `ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMNS(..)` for ORC data source
– SPARK-18355 Spark SQL fails to read from a ORC table with new column
 Write
– SPARK-12417 Orc bloom filter options are not propagated during file write

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Agenda
Performance Update
Spark – Apache ORC 1.4 Integration
Benchmark Overview
Results
Roadmap

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Benchmark Overview
• Benchmark Objective
• Compare performance of New ORC vs Old ORC in Spark
• With TPC-DS at different scales 1 TB, 10 TB

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Enabling New ORC in Spark
 spark.sql.hive.convertMetastoreOrc=true
 spark.sql.orc.enabled=true

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Software/Hardware/Cluster Details
 Software
– Internal branch of Spark 2.2 (in HDP)
 Node Configuration
– 32 CPU, Intel E5-2640, 2.00GHz
– 256 GB RAM
– 6 SATA Disks (~4 TB, 7200 rpm)
– 10 Gbps network card
 Cluster
– 10 nodes used for 1 TB
– 15 nodes used for 10 TB
– Double type used in data
– TPC-DS (1.4) queries in Spark used for benchmarking

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Spark Tuning
Spark Parameter Name Default Value Tuned Value
spark.sql.hive.convertMetastoreOrc false true
spark.sql.orc.enabled false true
spark.sql.orc.filterPushdown false true
spark.sql.statistics.fallBackToHdfs false true
spark.sql.autoBroadcastJoinThreshold 10L * 1024 * 1024 (10MB) 26214400
spark.shuffle.io.numConnectionsPerPeer 1 10
spark.io.compression.lz4.blockSize 32k 128kb
spark.sql.shuffle.partitions 200 300
spark.network.timeout 120s 600s
spark.locality.wait 3s 0s
*Hive Parameter Name (hive-site.xml) Default Value Tuned Value
hive.exec.max.dynamic.partitions 1000 10000
hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode strict nonstrict
*mainly for data ingestion
*all tables analyzed with `noscan` option for getting basic stats

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Agenda
Performance Update
Spark – Apache ORC 1.4 Integration
Benchmark Overview
Results
Roadmap

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Results : 10 TB Scale (15 executors, 170 GB, 25 cores)
* Total runtime of 74 queries in TPC-DS
- New ORC is > 2x better than old ORC

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Results : 10 TB Scale (15 executors, 170 GB, 25 cores)
New ORC vs Old ORC
New ORC consistently outperforms old ORC in all queries significantly

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Results : 1 TB Scale (10 executors, 170 GB, 25 cores)
* Total runtime of 97 queries in TPC-DS @ 1 TB scale
• New ORC is ~2x faster than old ORC

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*Profiler shows high CPU usage with libzip.so during ORC reads. ORC-175 can be used for improving this further
*ORC-175 (Intel ISAL: intelligent storage acceleration libraries for inflate) can be useful here

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Comparison of New ORC vs Old ORC vs Parquet (10 TB Scale)
* Total runtime of 74 queries in TPC-DS
* 10 TB Scale (15 executors, 170 GB, 25 cores)

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Agenda
Performance Update
Spark – Apache ORC 1.4 Integration
Benchmark Overview
Results
Roadmap

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RoadMap
 Tune default ambari configs for spark based on these benchmark results to get better
OOTB experience for end users
 Additional enhancements like parallel reading of footers in ORC
 Include ORC-175 (Intel ISAL) when complete
 Contribute back the fixes back to community

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Thanks!
 Questions
– For ORC – dev@@orc.apache.org
– For Spark – dev@spark.apache.org
– Benchmarks – dhyun@hortonworks.com

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Results : 10 TB Scale (15 executors, 170 GB, 25 cores)
Comparison of New ORC vs Parquet