[jira] [Updated] (TINKERPOP3-866) GroupStep and Traversal-Based Reductions

["stephen mallette (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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stephen mallette updated TINKERPOP3-866:
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    Affects Version/s:     (was: 3.0.0-incubating)

> GroupStep and Traversal-Based Reductions
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TINKERPOP3-866
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP3-866
>             Project: TinkerPop 3
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: process
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.1-incubating
>            Reporter: Marko A. Rodriguez
>            Assignee: Marko A. Rodriguez
>              Labels: breaking
>             Fix For: 3.1.0-incubating
>
>
> Right now {{GroupStep}} is defined as:
> {code}
> public final class GroupStep<S, K, V, R> extends ReducingBarrierStep<S, Map<K, R>> implements MapReducer, TraversalParent {
>     private Traversal.Admin<S, K> keyTraversal = null;
>     private Traversal.Admin<S, V> valueTraversal = null;
>     private Traversal.Admin<Collection<V>, R> reduceTraversal = null;
> ...
> {code}
> Look at {{reduceTraversal}}. It takes a {{Collection<V>}} of "values" and reduces them to a "reduction" {{R}}. Why are we using {{Collection<V>}}, why is this not:
> {code}
> private Traversal.Admin<V, R> reduceTraversal = null;
> {code}
> Now, when a new {{K}} is created (and reduce is defined), we clone {{reduceTraversal}}. Thus, each key has a {{reduceTraversal}} (identical clones) that operate in a stream like fashion on {{V}} to yield {{R}}. This enables us to remove the {{Collection<V>}} (memory hog) and allows us to defined {{GroupCountStep}} in terms of {{GroupStep}} without (?limited?) computational cost. HOWEVER, this changes the API as people who did this:
> {code}
> g.V.group.by(label()).by(outE().count()).by(sum(local))
> {code}
> would now have to do this:
> {code}
> g.V.group.by(label()).by(outE().count()).by(sum())
> {code}
> Its very minor, given the speed up we would gain and the ability for us to now do "groupCount" efficiently on arbitrary values -- not just bulks (e.g. sacks).



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