Performance Tuning

Storage Format
Num
Rows
Num
Columns
Bytes Disk
Num
Executors
Executor Memory
Total RAM
Transfer Time
Process Time
Local File
1M
50
1G
1
3G
3G
0 mins
2 mins
HDFS File
10M
50
5G
3
8G
24G
0 mins
4 mins
Hive Table
10M
50
5G
3
8G
24G
0 mins
4 mins
JDBC Table
50M
50
25G
8
10G
80G
3 mins
8 mins
JDBC Table
10M
100
10G
3
12G
36G
3 mins
6 mins
JDBC Table
250M
9
10G
5
7G
35G
14 mins
15 mins
JDBC Table
250M
145
70G
17
12G
204G
28 mins
30 mins
Using a 10/1 ratio of RAM to Executors is often a good rule of thumb, another and more simple option is to turn on dynamic.allocation and allow the resources to be provided as needed on demand.
Limit Columns
In most cased there are a large number of columns that go unused by the business or columns that don't require checking. One of the most efficient things you can do is limit the cols using the below cmds. As a best practice Owl strongly recommends using less than 80 columns per dataset.
-q "select colA, colB, colC, datCol, colD from table"
// vs
-q "select * from * from table"
How to limit columns when using a file
-fq "select colA, colB, colC from dataset"
// file query using keyword dataset
JDBC vs Local Data
Co-Located data (local data)
It is always a good performance practice to colocate data and processing. That doesn't mean that you tech organization chooses to do this in it's architecture and design which is why Owl accounts for both. If the data is located on the cluster that is doing the processing use options like -hive for non JDBC and native file access. Skip tuning for JDBC as moving data to the cluster first will routinely reduce 50% of the performance bottleneck.
JDBC
Set fetchsize
1M rows -connectionprops fetchsize=1000
5M rows -connectionprops fetchsize=5000
10M rows -connectionprops fetchsize=10000
Set DriverMemory
add more memory to the driver node as it will be responsible for the initial landing of data.\
--driver-memory 7g
Add Parallel JDBC
Limit Features, Turn Flags Off
-corroff    //only losing visuals, 5% speed gain
-histoff    //only losing visuals, 4% speed gain 
-hootonly   //speeds up 1% based on less logging
-readonly   //remove owl webapp read writes, 1% gain
-datashapeoff //removes Shape Detection 3% speed gain
Real World Scenario
9 Million rows with 46 columns on a daily basis for just 1 dataset. The data lives in Greenplum and we want to process it on a cluster platform where Owl runs. The first run results in a 12 minute runtime. While acceptable it's not ideal, here is what you should do.
1.Add Parallel JDBC for faster network
2.Limit columns to the 18 that are of use in the downstream processing
3.Turn off unneeded features.
4.Find out of the job is memory bound or CPU bound
By setting the below configs this same job ran in 6 mins.
# parallel functions
-columnname run_date -numpartitions 4 \
-lowerbound "2019-02-23 00:00:00" \
-upperbound "2019-02-24 00:00:00"
# driver optimization
-connectionprops fetchsize=6000
# analyst functions
-corroff \
-histoff
# hardware
-executormemory 4g
-numexecutors 3
The Full OwlCheck
./owlcheck  \
-u u -p pass  \
-c jdbc:postgresql://$host/postgres \                   # jdbc url
-ds aumdt  -rd 2019-05-05  \
-q "select * from aum_dt"  \
-driver org.postgresql.Driver \                         # driver
-lib /home/owl/drivers/postgres  \                      # driver jar
-connectionprops fetchsize=6000 \                       # driver performance setting
-master yarn -deploymode client \
-executormemory 2G -numexecutors 2 -drivermemory 3g \   # hardware sizing
-h cdh-edge.us-east1-b.c.owl-hadoop-cdh.internal:2181 \ # owl metastore
-corroff -histoff -statsoff \                           # owl features 
-loglevel INFO \                                        # log level 
-columnname updt_ts -numpartitions 12 \                 # parallel jdbc
-lowerbound 1557623033193 -upperbound 1557623051585
{
  "dataset": "aumdt",
  "runId": "2019-05-05",
  "score": 100,
  "behaviorScore": 0,
  "rows": 9000000,
  "passFail": 0,
  "peak": 0,
  "avgRows": 0,
  "cols": 46,
  "runTime": "00:05:23",
  }

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