On 28/01/15 14:49, Roberto Cornacchia wrote:

Hi Sjoerd,

This is very welcome!

If I read well, this will use, in order of preference: 1. binary search (if l is sorted) 2. imprints if available

No, if *possible*. I.e. we make then if needed.

3. nested loop otherwise

Correct.

We use rangejoin extensively within Spinque and the previous one (just nested loop) has never an option. So far we have been using our own version which is perhaps naive but proved to be effective: - sort all inputs if not sorted already - perform a mergejon-like fast scan

Though simple, I have not found so far a case where this strategy would not outperform nested loops by far. The cost of sorting was always far less than the cost of a full nested loop.

I was wondering what your thoughts about this would be. Could this strategy replace the number 3 above? Does it make sense to keep the vanilla nested loop? Best, Roberto

Our next step will likely be that we do an on-the-fly sort of the left input and then use the binary search version. A back-of-the-envelope (*) calculation tells us that this will be faster than doing either an imprints or nested-loop version quite soon. The sort is O(n log n) and the binary search that follows is O(m log n) where n is the size of the left input and m the size of the right input. Both imprints and nested loop are O(n m) (with different constant factors). So the condition has to do with comparing m and log n. But until this is implemented we have no idea about the constant factor that is involved here. But it's likely that we'll initially just always sort the left side unless the right is very short (max 2 or 3 entries?). (*) on a whiteboard ;-)

On 27 January 2015 at 14:09, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:

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Changeset: 5147add3bb38 for MonetDB URL: http://dev.monetdb.org/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=5147add3bb38 Modified Files: gdk/ChangeLog.Oct2014 gdk/gdk_join.c gdk/gdk_private.h gdk/gdk_select.c Branch: Oct2014 Log Message:

Reimplemented rangejoin, now using imprints or binary search if possible.

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