How do I update one column of all rows in a large table in my Spring Boot application? - spring-boot

Question

I have a Spring Boot 2.x project with a big Table in my Cassandra Database. In my Liquibase Migration Class, I need to replace a value from one column in all rows.
For me its a big perfomance hit, when I try to solve this with
SELECT * FROM BOOKING
forEach Row
Update Row
Because of the total number of rows. Even when I select only 1 Column.
Is it possible to make something like "partwise/pagination" loop?
Pseudecode
Take first 1000 rows
do Update
Take next 1000 rows
do Update
loop.
Im also happy about all other solution approaches you have.

Answer 1

Must known:
Make sure there is a way to group the updates by partition. If you try a batchUpdate on 1000 rows not in same partition the coordinator of the request will suffer, you are moving the load from your client to the coordinator, and you want the parallelize the writes instead. A batchUpdate with cassandra has nothing to do with the one in relational databases.
For fined-grained operations like this you want to go back to the usage of the drivers with CassandraOperations and CqlSession for maximum control
There is a way to paginate with Spring Data cassandra using Slice but do not have control over how operations are implemented.
Spring Data Cassandra core
Slice<MyEntity> slice = MyEntityRepo.findAll(CassandraPageRequest.first(size));
while(slice.hasNext() && currpage < page) {
slice = personrepo.findAll(slice.nextPageable());
currpage++;
}
slice.getContent();
Drivers:
// Prepare Statements to speed up queries
PreparedStatement selectPS = session.prepare(QueryBuilder
.selectFrom( "myEntity").all()
.build()
.setPageSize(1000) // 1000 per pages
.setTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10)); // 10s timeout
PreparedStatement updatePS = session.prepare(QueryBuilder
.update("mytable")
.setColumn("myColumn", QueryBuilder.bindMarker())
.whereColumn("myPK").isEqualTo(QueryBuilder.bindMarker())
.build()
.setConsistencyLevel(ConsistencyLevel.ONE)); // Fast writes
// Paginate
ResultSet page1 = session.execute(selectPS);
Iterator<Row> page1Iter = page1.iterator();
while (0 < page1.getAvailableWithoutFetching()) {
Row row = page1Iter.next();
cqlsession.executeAsync(updatePS.bind(...));
}
ByteBuffer pagingStateAsBytes =
page1.getExecutionInfo().getPagingState();
selectPS.setPagingState(pagingStateAsBytes);
ResultSet page2 = session.execute(selectPS);
You could of course include this pagination in a loop and track progress.