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[jira] [Created] (SPARK-8304) Table with a large number of columns

jaeboo jung created SPARK-8304:
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             Summary: Table with a large number of columns
                 Key: SPARK-8304
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8304
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 1.3.1
            Reporter: jaeboo jung


SQLContext can't handle any table with a large number of columns. Making dataframe is ok but when a user try to execute query on it, spark doesn't respond. To test, run below code from spark-shell.

{code:java}
import org.apache.spark.sql._ 
import org.apache.spark.sql.types._ 
val arr = (1 to 500000) 
val columns = StructType(arr.map(x => StructField("columnNum_"+x , StringType, true))) 
val data = arr.map(x => arr) 
val rdd = sc.parallelize(data , 1000).map(Row.fromSeq(_)) 
val df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd,columns)

//select few columns among 500,000 columns
def select1() = { 
val t1 = System.currentTimeMillis 
df.select("columnNum_1") 
println( System.currentTimeMillis - t1 ) 
} 
def select2() = { 
val t1 = System.currentTimeMillis 
df.select("columnNum_1","columnNum_2") 
println( System.currentTimeMillis - t1 ) 
} 
def select3() = { 
val t1 = System.currentTimeMillis 
df.select("columnNum_1","columnNum_2","columnNum_3") 
println( System.currentTimeMillis - t1 ) 
} 
def select4() = { 
val t1 = System.currentTimeMillis 
df.select("columnNum_1","columnNum_2","columnNum_3","columnNum_4") 
println( System.currentTimeMillis - t1 ) 
} 
def select5() = { 
val t1 = System.currentTimeMillis 
df.select("columnNum_1","columnNum_2","columnNum_3","columnNum_4","columnNum_5") 
println( System.currentTimeMillis - t1 ) 
} 
def select6() = { 
val t1 = System.currentTimeMillis 
df.select("columnNum_1","columnNum_2","columnNum_3","columnNum_4","columnNum_5","columnNum_6") 
println( System.currentTimeMillis - t1 ) 
} 
def select7() = { 
val t1 = System.currentTimeMillis 
df.select("columnNum_1","columnNum_2","columnNum_3","columnNum_4","columnNum_5","columnNum_6","columnNum_7") 
println( System.currentTimeMillis - t1 ) 
}  
{code}
And the result is,
{code}
select1 
20552 
select2 
25391 
select3 
29619 
select4 
33695 
select5 
42220 
select6 
44790 
select7 
49101 
{code}
Elapsed time for selecting columns is increased about 4000ms after each addition.




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