Drill 1.14.0-1808 (EEP 6.0.0) Release Notes

This section provides reference information, including new features, improvements, resolved issues, known issues, and limitations for Drill 1.14.0-1808.

These release notes contain MapR-specific information and are not necessarily cumulative in nature. For information about how to use the release notes, see Ecosystem Component Release Notes.

The following release notes apply to the 1.14.0 version of the Drill component:

Version 1.14.0
Release Date September 2018
MapR Version Interoperability See Component Versions for Released EEPs.
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New in this Release

Drill 1.14.0 includes the following new features and improvements:
Query Planning
The query planner in Drill can leverage indexes created on MapR Database JSON document fields with array fields. See Writing Drill Queries that Leverage Indexes on Array Fields. (MD-3742)
When you query a view created on a MapR Database table, the query planner in Drill creates the same query plan it would create if you ran the underlying query directly against the MapR Database table. (MD-3360, MD-3313)
SQL
Drill supports lateral joins. You must enable the lateral join functionality in Drill. See Lateral Join.
The DECIMAL data type is enabled by default and has enhanced support. (MD-3522, MD-1138, MD-640)
Hive schema and table names are case-insensitive. See Case-Sensitivity. (MD-948)
Support for the ANY_VALUE function; based on CALCITE-2366. (MD-4498)
Drill allows comparisons between date and timestamp values. (MD-4220)
Resource management
Drill can directly manage the CPU resources through the Drill start-up script, drill-env.sh. See Configuring cgroups to Control CPU Usage. (MD-3862)
Storage plugin management
Ability to export and save your storage plugin configurations to a JSON file for reuse. (MD-4621)
Ability to manage storage plugin configurations in the Drill configuration file storage-plugins-override.conf. (MD-2732)
Integration with Hive and Hue
Hue integration with Drill is officially supported. See Integrate Hue with Drill. (MD-2382)
Ability to specify Hive properties at the session level through the store.hive.conf.properties option. See Setting Hive Properties. (MD-4370)
A new option, store.hive.maprdb_json.optimize_scan_with_native_reader, enables Drill to use the native Drill reader to read Hive MapR Database JSON tables. When you enable this option, Drill typically performs faster reads of data and applies filter pushdown optimizations. See SET maprdb Format Plugin Options. (MD-3662)
Parquet filter pushdown and partition pruning
Drill can infer filter conditions for join queries and push the filter conditions down to the data source. (MD-3542, MD-2181, MD-1399, MD-1272)
Parquet filter pushdown pushes filters past the ITEM operator; useful for queries on complex fields. (MD-1271)
Parquet performance improvements. (MD-2518, MD-1582)
Drill uses a native reader to read Hive tables when the store.hive.optimize_scan_with_native_readers option is enabled; Drill reads data faster and applies filter pushdown optimizations. (MD-1267)
Drill can pushdown filters into the Systems table. (MD-4055)
Query profiles
Profiles in Drill show the amount of memory used by the Unordered Receiver operator. (MD-4260)
Drivers
Drill 1.14 requires new versions of the ODBC and JDBC drivers. You can download the MapR ODBC and JDBC drivers for Drill 1.14. Earlier versions of the drivers do not work with Apache Drill 1.14.

For a list of additional features and improvements, see the Apache Drill 1.14 Release Notes.

Default Configuration Changes

Note the following changes to default configurations in Drill 1.14.0:
  • Warden manages memory as a percentage of total system memory. See Configuring Drill Memory. (MD-2850)
  • Spillable operators spill data to the /tmp/drill/spill directory on the MapR Filesystem. You can override this setting in drill-override.conf. Refer to the examples in drill-override-example.conf. (MD-4775)
  • Query profile data is stored in maprfs:///apps/drill/profiles. The drill-override.conf file includes the sys.store.provider.zk.blobroot property that you can use to override the default location. See Configuring the ZooKeeper PStore Location. (MD-3527)

Resolved Issues

Drill 1.14.0 includes the following resolved issues:
MapR Tracking Numbers Resolved Issues
MD-4871 When querying a target MapR stream, the query stops running, and Drill prints a message stating "Failed to fetch messages within 200 milliseconds."
MD-4831 The Drill-on-Yarn package has inconsistent libMapRClient.so versions.
MD-4721 The following error should be logged as a warning instead of an error:

"ERROR o.a.d.e.p.index.IndexDiscoverBase - No index returned from Admin.getTableIndexes"

MD-4666 DRILL-6612: Drill logs an assertion error when a query joins on a temporary table.
MD-4643 DRILL-6732: Disabled storage plugins work as if they are enabled.
MD-4607 DRILL-6557: Scanning input splits in Hive table causes an exceptionally long planning phase.
MD-4535 DRILL-6513: Drill should only allow valid values when users set planner.memory.max_query_memory_per_node. This option should be limited by direct memory; otherwise, there can be memory pressure and out-of-memory errors.
MD-4422 DRILL-6468: The Drillbit stays in QUIESCENT mode after an out-of-memory condition.
MD-4371 A specific query returns an exception when using the "equals" operator to filter on a boolean column.
MD-4251 DRILL-6474: Queries with ORDER BY and OFFSET (without LIMIT) do not return any rows.
MD-4156

When selecting a column from a Parquet file, a query may stop running and return an error stating "ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException,"

MD-4133 The INFO log level provides excessive logging information.
MD-4107 Queries on Hive data sources may stop running amd return an error stating “UnsupportedOperationException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.convert.ETypeConverter$8$1.”
MD-4102 UNION ALL queries return a UNION-ALLNumberFormatException
MD-4065 The Hash Aggregate operator uses ~2X memory.
MD-4048 DRILL-6282: Update Drill's metric dependencies.
MD-4033 Drill does not return results for some queries with an inner join.
MD-4017

DRILL-6254: Flatten queries may stop running due to an error that states “IllegalArgumentException: the requested size must be non-negative.”

MD-4005 The HashJoinSpill operator does not use memory efficiently.
MD-3997 DRILL-6250: The SQLLine start command and password appears in sqlline.log.
MD-3984 DRILL-6241: The Saffron properties configuration file has excessive permissions.
MD-3886 DRILL-6199: Filter push down does not work with more than one nested subquery.
MD-3716 DRILL-6223: Queries stop running if they select on all columns from a set of Parquet files.
MD-3688 Impersonating a view owner does not work.
MD-3656 DRILL-6132 The HashPartitionSender leaks memory.
MD-3541 If Drill encounters JRE SIGSEGV, the Drillbit stops running.
MD-3525 Drill queries fails on function LOG10.
MD-2883 DRILL-4337: Querying Hive tables with INT96 fields causes Drill to fail.
MD-2082 DRILL 4807: An ORDER BY aggregate function in a window definition results in an assertion error.
MD-2048 The JSESSIONID cookie is not set with the HttpOnly flag.
MD-1549 DRILL-5188: TPC-DS query16 fails with the following exception: “IllegalArgumentException: Target must be less than target count”
MD-1487 DRILL-3855: Predicate pushdown does not occur for the UNION ALL operator.

Known Issues

Drill 1.14.0 has the following known issues:
MapR Tracking Numbers Known Issues
MD-4938 The planner.index.covering_selectivity_threshold does not take effect in the execution plan when the option is set to values less than 1.0 for complex data.
MD-4906

For selectivity queries on secondary indexes, Drill may return an exception that states “ForemanException: One more more nodes lost connectivity during query.”

MD-4902 Queries with AND conditions on indexed complex type fields are not parallelized.
MD-4894 Queries with nested FLATTEN functions may stop running and return an error that states “Error: UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION ERROR: Hash aggregate does not support schema change.”
MD-4890 The query planner in Drill does not create an index-based query plan for queries with multi-level flattens or queries with intermediate filters that reference multi-level flattens.
MD-4865 Certain queries with AND conditions on alphanumeric data, such as keys, stop running, and Drill returns an error that states “UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION ERROR: In a list of type BIT, encountered a value of type FLOAT4.”
MD-4860 Simple select star queries return a NullPointerException when the data is highly complex.
MD-4846 When operators hit the maximum buffer size, Drill returns an OversizedAllocationException that states "Unable to expand the buffer. Max allowed buffer size is reached."
MD-4827 The ODBC driver returns INFINITY in capital letters instead of mixed case.
MD-4821

DRILL-6707: A query with a 10-way merge join fails with an IllegalArgumentException.

MD-4799 Data batches for the Project operator exceed the specified maximum.
MD-4773 A data verification failure in Functional/tpch/sf0dot01/smoke/parquet/join10-hash.q needs to be resolved.
MD-4759 An orderby on a field with [][] throws a NullPointerException.
MD-4739 Parallelism for complex secondary index plans are unrestricted.
MD-4738 The query planner incorrectly determines parallelism for secondary index plans.
MD-4736 Queries with multiple flatten functions may hang.
MD-4730 Drill may log the following exception during index planning: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.drill.common.expression.FunctionCall cannot be cast to org.apache.drill.common.expression.SchemaPath
MD-4709 Queries pick non-covering index plans if the Streaming Aggregate operator is disabled.
MD-4704

Queries that have an exact equality filter with a map JSON literal stop running and return an error that states "SchemaChangeException - Error: Missing function implementation: [equal(MAP-REQUIRED, VARBINARY-REQUIRED)]."

MD-4577 The HashJoin operator allocates too much memory and slows down queries (TPCH 16) when spill to disk is enabled.
MD-4574 MapR Database cannot push filters on non-rowkey columns down to the data source when using a convert function with the byte_substr manipulation function; for example:

… where convert_from(byte_substr(t.cf1.ADDR_WORK_OPT_OUT_DATE_DM,1,8),'UTF8')='20130402'

MD-4531 The total batches for the Project operator are not properly split and exceed the maximum specified.
MD-4518 The total batch size for the Project operator exceeds the maximum specified.
MD-4504 [DRILL-6465] Transitive closure is not working for joins with multiple local conditions.
MD-4479 The error message for group by queries on a complex type needs to be updated to state that they are unsupported.
MD-4404 The Datediff function returns the wrong result if Drill uses a timezone with DST.
MD-4377

Queries on complex data may stop running and return a NumberFormatException.

MD-4376 Queries on complex data may return a NullPointerException.
MD-4375 Queries with invalid filters on fields with complex types hang during the planning phase.
MD-4264 HashAgg Batch throws an IllegalStateException when asserts are enabled for a non-covering index plan.
MD-4229 DRILL-6329 : TPC-DS Query 66 failed due to out-of-memory errors.

Fixes

None

Limitations

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