[jira] [Created] (DRILL-7096) Develop vector for canonical Map

["Igor Guzenko (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Igor Guzenko created DRILL-7096:
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             Summary: Develop vector for canonical Map<K,V>
                 Key: DRILL-7096
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-7096
             Project: Apache Drill
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Igor Guzenko
            Assignee: Igor Guzenko


Canonical Map<K,V> datatype can be represented using combination of three value vectors:

keysVector - vector for storing keys of each map
valuesVector - vector for storing values of each map
offsetsVector - vector for storing of start indexes of next each map

So it's not very hard to create such Map vector, but there is a major issue with such map representation. It's hard to search maps values by key in such vector, need to investigate some advanced techniques to make such search efficient. Or find other more suitable options to represent map datatype in world of vectors.

After question about maps, Apache Arrow developers responded that for Java they don't have real Map vector, for now they just have logical Map type definition where they define Map like: List< Struct<key:key_type, value:value_type> >. So implementation of value vector would be useful for Arrow too.



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