Parallel streaming of external data

• US 9,684,671 B1
• Filed: 02/28/2014
• Issued: 06/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Goldshuv, Alon, Dorin, Dov Yaron, Shacked, Alex
• Primary Examiner(s): Hasan, Syed
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ahmed, Saba
• Application Number:
  US14/194,444
• Time in Patent Office: 1,208 Days
• Field of Search: 707693
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/116 Details of conversion of file system types or formats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/182 Distributed file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2456 Join operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2471 Distributed queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/33 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for streaming external data in parallel from a second distributed system to a first distributed system. One of the methods includes receiving a query that requests a join of first rows of a first table in a first distributed system with second rows of an external table, the external table representing data in a second distributed system. Each of the segment nodes communicates with a respective extension service that obtains fragments from one or more data nodes of the second distributed system according to location information for the respective fragments, and provides to the segment node a stream of data corresponding to second rows of the external table. Each of the segment nodes computes joined rows between the first rows of the first table and the stream of data corresponding to second rows of the external table.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a first distributed system, a query that requests a join of first rows of a first table stored by a first distributed system comprising multiple segment nodes with second rows of an external table, the external table representing data stored in multiple data fragments on multiple respective data nodes in a second distributed system, wherein each of the data nodes of the second distributed system are distinct from the segment nodes of the first distributed system, wherein the first distributed system operates under control of a first master node and the second distributed system operates under control of a second master node that is distinct from the first master node;

in response to receiving the query, initiating communication by a plurality of extension services between nodes of the first distributed system and nodes of the second distributed system, including a first extension service communicating with the master nodes of the first and second distributed system and a plurality of second extension services communicating between data nodes of the second distributed system and segment nodes of the first distributed system;

requesting, by the master node of the first distributed system from the first extension service, location information for a plurality of the data fragments in the second distributed system represented by the external table;

allocating each data fragment of the plurality of data fragments to a respective one of the plurality of second extension services and each of the second extension services to one of a plurality of segment nodes of the first distributed system, including providing each segment node with location information for respective data fragments of the plurality of fragments allocated to the segment node;

receiving, by each of the plurality of segment nodes of the first distributed system, a stream of data from a respective data node of the second distributed system through a respective second extension service of the plurality of extension services that obtains fragments from the respective data node of the second distributed system according to the location information obtained by the master node of the first distributed;

computing, by each of the plurality of segment nodes of the first distributed system, joined rows between the first rows of the first table and the stream of data corresponding to second rows of the external table; and

computing a result for the received query using the joined rows.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the location information for the plurality of fragments occurs after receiving the query.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second distributed system stores the data fragments in a second format that is different from a first format of the first table in the first distributed system.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the second distributed system is a NoSQL database.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the first format is a row-oriented format and wherein the second format is a column-oriented format.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein each second extension service of the plurality of extension services converts the data from the first format to the second format after receiving the query and before computing a result for the received query.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each segment node of the first distributed system generates joined rows without storing the stream of data corresponding to the second rows of the external table in a database of the first distributed system.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein each segment node of the first distributed system generates joined rows without storing the stream of data corresponding to the second rows of the external table in nonvolatile memory.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least two segment nodes of the first distributed system compute joined rows in parallel from respective streams of data from the data nodes of the second distributed system.

10. A system comprising:

one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

receiving, by a first distributed system, a query that requests a join of first rows of a first table stored by a first distributed system comprising multiple segment nodes with second rows of an external table, the external table representing data stored in multiple data fragments on multiple respective data nodes in a second distributed system, wherein each of the data nodes of the second distributed system are distinct from the segment nodes of the first distributed system, wherein the first distributed system operates under control of a first master node and the second distributed system operates under control of a second master node that is distinct from the first master node;

in response to receiving the query, initiating communication by a plurality of extension services between nodes of the first distributed system and nodes of the second distributed system, including a first extension service communicating with the master nodes of the first and second distributed system and a plurality of second extension services communicating between data nodes of the second distributed system and segment nodes of the first distributed system;

requesting, by the master node of the first distributed system from the first extension service, location information for a plurality of the data fragments in the second distributed system represented by the external table;

allocating each data fragment of the plurality of data fragments to a respective one of the plurality of second extension services and each of the second extension services to one of a plurality of segment nodes of the first distributed system, including providing each segment node with location information for respective data fragments of the plurality of fragments allocated to the segment node;

receiving, by each of the plurality of segment nodes of the first distributed system, a stream of data from a respective data node of the second distributed system through a respective second extension service of the plurality of extension services that obtains fragments from the respective data node of the second distributed system according to the location information obtained by the master node of the first distributed;

computing, by each of the plurality of segment nodes of the first distributed system, joined rows between the first rows of the first table and the stream of data corresponding to second rows of the external table; and

computing a result for the received query using the joined rows.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein obtaining the location information for the plurality of fragments occurs after receiving the query.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the second distributed system stores the data fragments in a second format that is different from a first format of the first table in the first distributed system.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the second distributed system is a NoSQL database.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the first format is a row-oriented format and wherein the second format is a column-oriented format.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein each second extension service of the plurality of extension services converts the data from the first format to the second format after receiving the query and before computing a result for the received query.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein each segment node of the first distributed system generates joined rows without storing the stream of data corresponding to the second rows of the external table in a database of the first distributed system.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein each segment node of the first distributed system generates joined rows without storing the stream of data corresponding to the second rows of the external table in nonvolatile memory.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein at least two segment nodes of the first distributed system compute joined rows in parallel from respective streams of data from the data nodes of the second distributed system.

19. A computer program product, encoded on one or more non-transitory computer storage media, comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a first distributed system, a query that requests a join of first rows of a first table stored by a first distributed system comprising multiple segment nodes with second rows of an external table, the external table representing data stored in multiple data fragments on multiple respective data nodes in a second distributed system, wherein each of the data nodes of the second distributed system are distinct from the segment nodes of the first distributed system, wherein the first distributed system operates under control of a first master node and the second distributed system operates under control of a second master node that is distinct from the first master node;

in response to receiving the query, initiating communication by a plurality of extension services between nodes of the first distributed system and nodes of the second distributed system, including a first extension service communicating with the master nodes of the first and second distributed system and a plurality of second extension services communicating between data nodes of the second distributed system and segment nodes of the first distributed system;

requesting, by the master node of the first distributed system from the first extension service, location information for a plurality of the data fragments in the second distributed system represented by the external table;

allocating each data fragment of the plurality of data fragments to a respective one of the plurality of second extension services and each of the second extension services to one of a plurality of segment nodes of the first distributed system, including providing each segment node with location information for respective data fragments of the plurality of fragments allocated to the segment node;

receiving, by each of the plurality of segment nodes of the first distributed system, a stream of data from a respective data node of the second distributed system through a respective second extension service of the plurality of extension services that obtains fragments from nodes the respective data node of the second distributed system according to the location information obtained by the master node of the first distributed;

computing, by each of the plurality of segment nodes of the first distributed system, joined rows between the first rows of the first table and the stream of data corresponding to second rows of the external table; and

computing a result for the received query using the joined rows.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein each segment node of the first distributed system generates joined rows without storing the stream of data corresponding to the second rows of the external table in a database of the first distributed system.