[GitHub] sraghunandan commented on a change in pull request #3093: [CARBONDATA-3263] Update doc for RANGE_COLUMN

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sraghunandan commented on a change in pull request #3093: [CARBONDATA-3263] Update doc for RANGE_COLUMN
URL: https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/3093#discussion_r250061294
 
 

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 File path: docs/dml-of-carbondata.md
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 @@ -251,15 +252,31 @@ CarbonData DML statements are documented here,which includes:
   - ##### GLOBAL_SORT_PARTITIONS:
 
     If the SORT_SCOPE is defined as GLOBAL_SORT, then user can specify the number of partitions to use while shuffling data for sort using GLOBAL_SORT_PARTITIONS. If it is not configured, or configured less than 1, then it uses the number of map task as reduce task. It is recommended that each reduce task deal with 512MB-1GB data.
-
+    For RANGE_COLUMN, GLOBAL_SORT_PARTITIONS is used to specify the number of range partitions also.
   ```
   OPTIONS('GLOBAL_SORT_PARTITIONS'='2')
   ```
 
-   NOTE:
+   **NOTE:**
    * GLOBAL_SORT_PARTITIONS should be Integer type, the range is [1,Integer.MaxValue].
    * It is only used when the SORT_SCOPE is GLOBAL_SORT.
 
+   - ##### SCALE_FACTOR
+
+   For RANGE_COLUMN, SCALE_FACTOR is used to control the number of range partitions as following.
+   ```
+     splitSize = max(blocklet_size, (block_size - blocklet_size)) * scale_factor
+     numPartitions = total size of input data / splitSize
+   ```
+   The default value is 3, and the range is [1, 300].
+
+   ```
+     OPTIONS('SCALE_FACTOR'='10')
+   ```
+   **NOTE:**
+   * If both GLOBAL_SORT_PARTITIONS and SCALE_FACTOR are used at the same time, only GLOBAL_SORT_PARTITIONS is valid.
+   * The compaction on RANGE_COLUMN will use LOCAL_SORT by default now.
 
 Review comment:
   remove the word now. its not required.

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