[jira] [Created] (SPARK-8682) Range Join for Spark SQL

["Herman van Hovell tot Westerflier (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Herman van Hovell tot Westerflier created SPARK-8682:
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             Summary: Range Join for Spark SQL
                 Key: SPARK-8682
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8682
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: SQL
            Reporter: Herman van Hovell tot Westerflier


Currently Spark SQL uses a Broadcast Nested Loop join (or a filtered Cartesian Join) when it has to execute the following range query:
{noformat}
SELECT A.*,
       B.*
FROM   tableA A
       JOIN tableB B
        ON A.start <= B.end
         AND A.end > B.start
{noformat}
This is horribly inefficient. The performance of this query can be greatly improved, when one of the tables can be broadcasted, by creating a range index. A range index is basically a sorted map containing the rows of the smaller table, indexed by both the high and low keys. using this structure the complexity of the query would go from O(N * M) to O(N * 2 * LOG(M)), N = number of records in the larger table, M = number of records in the smaller (indexed) table.

I have created a prototype for this. According to the [Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark|http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2015/sigmod_spark_sql.pdf] paper similar work (page 11, section 7.2) has already been done by the ADAM project (cannot locate the code though). 

So before charging ahead, by creating a PR, I would like to know first if this is worth the effort. Any comments and/or feedback are greatly appreciated.



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