This has actually bitten me too, I have to perform a nightly operation of dumping the table, dropping it, re-create the table then batch load all of the data back into it which can take some time. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Martin Kersten wrote:

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Hello,

I have a MonetDB database that contains a table of rolling events. There are 200 million records with 500,000 bulk loaded each day with the oldest 500,000 deleted at midnight. I'm finding the database gets slower as time goes on. It gets to the point of being almost unusable after a week. Is there something I should be doing different? Hello Matthew, Thanks for using MonetDB. Interesting application target.

This is a known issue. The system keeps the deleted tuples and rebuilds the table. A vacuum-like feature is needed and on the wishlist. For now, taking a copy of the table would 'solve' your problem.

regards, Martin

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In practice this takes a lot longer than a dump/reload. Overall this fits in with nightly maintenance that I have to run to keep Monet from experiencing odd behavior like dead-locks or segfault loops. 73, Matthew W. Jones (KI4ZIB) http://matburt.net On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Stefan Manegold wrote:

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This has actually bitten me too, I have to perform a nightly operation of dumping the table, dropping it, re-create the table then batch load all of the data back into it which can take some time.

hm, IMHO, you can do all this in SQL inside the server, i.e., without dump/reload:

sql>select * from t; +------+ | a | +======+ | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | +------+ 3 tuples sql>start transaction; auto commit mode: off sql>create temporary table tt as select * from t where a > 1 with data; sql>drop table t; operation successful sql>create table t as select * from tt with data; sql>drop table tt; operation successful sql>commit; auto commit mode: on sql>select * from t; +------+ | a | +======+ | 2 | | 3 | +------+ 2 tuples

Right, it still needs to copy the data (even twice, since we don't support table renames (yet?), and unless we optimize the second copy away), but all inside the server. i.e., without serializing and re-parsing the data ...

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Hello,

I have a MonetDB database that contains a table of rolling events. There are 200 million records with 500,000 bulk loaded each day with

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oldest 500,000 deleted at midnight. I'm finding the database gets slower as time goes on. It gets to the point of being almost unusable after a week. Is there something I should be doing different? Hello Matthew, Thanks for using MonetDB. Interesting application target.

This is a known issue. The system keeps the deleted tuples and rebuilds the table. A vacuum-like feature is needed and on the wishlist. For now, taking a copy of the table would 'solve' your problem.

regards, Martin

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Thanks, Matt

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