Query MinIO database without converting the files with Pandas - minio

I would like to know if there is any option available in order to query a MinIO database that stores DeltaTables in parquet format.
Currently I am using pyarrow with pandas but is really slow when the data become larger.
I saw that PySpark can be used to query the DeltaTables but I would like to know if there are any other options.
Thanks

It could depend how big the scale of the data you are dealing with, for big enough data sets you could try using presto for SQL syntax queries of from a MinIO source parquet files, using Hive Connector here is a how to:
https://blog.min.io/interactive-sql-query-with-presto-on-minio-cloud-storage/
Also, when you hit a large dataset could take advantage of Hive partition folder naming convention (ie. s3://bucketname/year=2019/ )to reduce the size of the data set needed to be queried, here is the docs regarding partitioning in in hive connector.
Unrelated note: credits to this question for help me remember the convention name

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Best method to save intermediate tables in pyspark

This is my first question on Stackoverflow.
I am replicating a SAS codebase in Pyspark. The SAS codebase produces and stores scores of intermediate SAS datasets (100 when I last counted) which are used to cross check the final output and also for other analyses at a later point in time.
My purpose is to save numerous Pyspark dataframes in some format so that they can be re-used in a separate Pyspark session. I have thought of 2 options:
Save dataframes as hive tables.
Save them as parquet files.
Are there any other formats? Which method is faster? Will parquet files or csv files have schema related issues while re-reading the files as Pyspark dataframes?
The best option is to use parquet files as they have following advantages:
3x compressed saves space
Columnar format, faster pushdowns
Optimized with spark catalyst optimizer
Schema persists as parquet contains schema related info.
The only issue is make sure you are not generating multiple small files, the default parquet block size is 128 mb so make sure you have files sufficiently large. You can repartition the data to make sure the file size is large enough
Use Deleta Lake, to iterate over data changes, changeable schema, parquet advantages, easy updates, track chages, data versioning
Parquet is default for pyspark and goes well. So you can just store as parquet files / hive table. Before pushing to hdfs/hive you can repartition files if may small files on source. If it's a huge data try partitioning hive table with a suitable column.

1 Billion records join(Filters) in Spark with Parquet file format vs HadoopText Input format

When reading a 1 Billion records of a table in Spark from Hive and this table have date and country columns as partitions. It is running for very long time since we are doing many transformations on it. If I change the Hive table file format to Parquet then will it be there any performance? Any suggestions on improvement of performance .
Change the Orc to Parquet maybe will not improve the performance.
But it depends of the type of data you have. If you are working with nested objects you need to use Parquet, Orc is not good for that.
But to create some improvement, I suggest you to do some steps that can help with your data in Hive.
Check the number of files in Hive.
One common thing that can create big problems in Hive Query is the number of files in each partition, and the size of these files are. If you are using Spark to store the data, I suggest you to check the size of the files and if they are stored with the size of your Hadoop block. If not, try to use the command CONCATENATE to solve that problem. As you can see here.
Predicate PushDown
This is what Hive, and Orc files can give you with the best performance in query the data. I suggest you to run one ANALYSE command to force the creation of the Statistics of your table, this will improve the performance and if the data is not efficient this will help. Check here and with this will update the Hive Metastore and will give you some relevant data information.
Ordered Data
If it is possible, try to store your data ordered by some column, and filter and do other stuffs in that column. Your join can be improved with this.

Apache Solr support for ORC file format

I have a bunch of tables in Hive, stored as ORC. I want to index their data in a SolrCloud collection.
Is there any support for indexing data stored in ORC format in Solr?
I've googled around but nothing came out.
Looks like you want SolR to read data from a specific Hive file format.
You might look at the problem the other way i.e. use Hive to write data to SolR -- and thus let Hive take care of the complexity of the actual input file format (whether ORC, Parquet, AVRO, whatever -- even HBase data files).
In the LucidWorks GitHub repo you will find a project labeled hive-solr. Have a look.
I'll accept Samson's answer.
Anyway, I'm not fully satisfied about this solution. In fact, now I still need to create an external table manually declaring all fields in the original table. In terms of operations, it is not different from creating a new table (stored ad textfile) starting from the original one, indexing the new text files and finally dropping them (of course, this may be a problem for very large tables, which is not my case).
Being ORC a self-describing format, it would be great for Solr to read both field names and data directly from the compressed files.

Does anybody know how to choose the data model when using impala?

There several kind of file format like impala internal table or external table format like csv, parquet, hbase. Now we need to guarantee the average insert rate is 50K row/s and each row is about 1K. And, some of the data also can be updated occasionally. We also need to do some aggregation operation on those data.
I think Hbase is not a good choose for large aggregation compute when using impala with external table. Does anybody have suggestion about it?
Thanks, Chen.
I've never worked with Impala, but I can tell you a few things based on my experience with Hive.
HBase will be faster if you have a good key design and a proper schema, because just like with Hive, Impala will translate your WHERE into scan filters, it'll depend a lot on the type of queries you run. There are multiple techniques to reduce the amount of data read by a job: from simple ones like providing start and stop rowkeys, timeranges, reading only some families/columns, the already mentioned filters... to more complex like solutions like performing realtime aggregations on your data (*) and keeping them as counters.
Regarding your insert rate, it can perfectly handle it with the proper infrastructure (better to use the HBase native JAVA API), also, you can buffer your writes to get even better performance.
*Not sure if Impala supports HBase counters.

Modeling Data in Hadoop

Currently I am bringing into Hadoop around 10 tables from an EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse), these tables are closely related to a Star Schema model. I'm usig Sqoop to bring all these tables across, resulting in 10 directories containing csv files.
I'm looking at what are some better ways to store these files before striking off MR jobs. Should I follow some kind of model or build an aggregate before working on MR jobs? I'm basically looking at how might be some ways of storing related data together.
Most things I have found by searching are storing trivial csv files and reading them with opencsv. I'm looking for something a bit more involved and not just for csv files. If moving towards another format works better than csv, then that is no problem.
Boils down to: How best to store a bunch of related data in HDFS to have a good experience with MR.
I suggest spending some time with Apache Avro.
With Sqoop v1.3 and beyond you can import data from your relational data sources as Avro files using a schema of your own design. What's nice about Avro is that it provides a lot of features in addition to being a serialization format...
It gives you data+schema in the same file but is compact and efficient for fast serialization. It gives you versioning facilities which are useful when bringing in updated data with a different schema. Hive supports it in both reading and writing and Map Reduce can use it seamlessly.
It can be used as a generic interchange format between applications (not just for Hadoop) making it an interesting option for a standard, cross-platform format for data exchange in your broader architecture.
Storing these files in csv is fine. Since you will be able to process these files using text output format and could also read it through hive using specific delimiter. You could change the delimiter if you do not like comma to pipe("|") that's what I do most of the time. Also you generally need to have large files in hadoop but if its large enough that you can partition these files and each file partition is in the size of few 100 gigs then it would be a good to partition these files into separate directory based on your partition column.
Also it would be better idea to have most of the columns in single table than having many normalized small tables. But that varies depending on your data size. Also make sure whenever you copy , move or create data you do all the constraint check on your applications as it will be difficult to make small changes in the table later on, you will need to modify the complete file for even small change.
Hive Partitioning and Bucketing concepts can be used to effectively used to put similar data together (not in nodes, but in files and folders) based on a particular column. Here are some nice tutorials for Partitioning and Bucketing.

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