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[jira] [Work logged] (BEAM-2810) Consider a faster Avro library in Python

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2810?focusedWorklogId=106227&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:worklog-tabpanel#worklog-106227 ]

ASF GitHub Bot logged work on BEAM-2810:
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                Author: ASF GitHub Bot
            Created on: 28/May/18 01:33
            Start Date: 28/May/18 01:33
    Worklog Time Spent: 10m 
      Work Description: ryan-williams opened a new pull request #5496: do not merge! [BEAM-2810] use fastavro in Avro IO
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/5496
 
 
   Use [fastavro](https://github.com/tebeka/fastavro) for python Avro IO instead of apache/avro; it is seemingly ≈10x faster.
   
   Not ready for merging yet because it uses [a fork of fastavro that I published to test.pypi.org](https://test.pypi.org/project/fastavro-blocks/0.19.5.4/) (see discussion at https://github.com/tebeka/fastavro/pull/208); I'd like to get CI to run on it and allow folks to comment though.

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> Consider a faster Avro library in Python
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>                 Key: BEAM-2810
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2810
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: sdk-py-core
>            Reporter: Eugene Kirpichov
>            Priority: Major
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45870789/bottleneck-on-data-source
> Seems like this job is reading Avro files (exported by BigQuery) at about 2 MB/s.
> We use the standard Python "avro" library which is apparently known to be very slow (10x+ slower than Java) http://apache-avro.679487.n3.nabble.com/Avro-decode-very-slow-in-Python-td4034422.html, and there are alternatives e.g. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fastavro/



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