[jira] [Created] (DRILL-4826) Query against INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES degrades as the number of views increases

["Parth Chandra (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Parth Chandra created DRILL-4826:
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             Summary: Query against INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES degrades as the number of views increases
                 Key: DRILL-4826
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4826
             Project: Apache Drill
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Parth Chandra
            Assignee: Parth Chandra


Queries against INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS slow down as the number of views increases. 

BI tools like Tableau issue a query like the following at connection time:
{code}
select TABLE_CATALOG, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, TABLE_TYPE from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.`TABLES` WHERE TABLE_CATALOG LIKE 'DRILL' ESCAPE '\' AND TABLE_SCHEMA <> 'sys' AND TABLE_SCHEMA <> 'INFORMATION_SCHEMA'ORDER BY TABLE_TYPE, TABLE_CATALOG, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME
{code}

The time to query the information schema tables degrades as the number of views increases. On a test system:

|| Views || Time(secs) ||
|500 | 6 |
|1000 | 19 |
|1500 | 33 |

This can result in a single connection taking more than a minute to establish.

The problem occurs because we read the view file for every view and this appears to take most of the time.

Querying information_schema.tables does not, in fact, need to open the view file at all, it merely needs to get a listing of the view files. Eliminating the view file read will speed up the query tremendously.



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