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VM or Process – a JBossAS instance running Teiid.
Host – a machine that is “hosting” one or more VMs.
Service – a subsystem running in a VM (often in many VMs) and providing a related set of functionality
In addition to these main components, the service platform provides a core set of services available to applications built on top of the service platform. These services are:
Session – the Session service manages active session information.
Buffer Manager – the Buffer Manager service provides access to data management for intermediate results.
Transaction – the Transaction service manages global, local, and request scoped transactions. See also the documentation on transaction support.
Teiid cursors all results, regardless of whether they are from one source or many sources, and regardless of what type of processing (joins, unions, etc.) have been performed on the results.
Teiid processes results in batches. A batch is simply a set of records. The number of rows in a batch is determined by the buffer system properties Processor Batch Size (within query engine) and Connector Batch Size (created at connectors).
Client applications have no direct knowledge of batches or batch sizes, but rather specify fetch size. However the first batch, regardless of fetch size is always proactively returned to synchronous clients. Subsequent batches are returned based on client demand for the data. Pre-fetching is utilized at both the client and connector levels.
The buffer manager manages memory for all result sets used in the query engine. That includes result sets read from a connection factory, result sets used temporarily during processing, and result sets prepared for a user. Each result set is referred to in the buffer manager as a tuple source.
When retrieving batches from the buffer manager, the size of a batch in bytes is estimated and then allocated against the max limit.
The buffer manager has two storage managers - a memory manager and a disk manager. The buffer manager maintains the state of all the batches, and determines when batches must be moved from memory to disk.
Each tuple source has a dedicated file (named by the ID) on disk. This file will be created only if at least one batch for the tuple source had to be swapped to disk. The file is random access. The connector batch size and processor batch size properties define how many rows can exist in a batch and thus define how granular the batches are when stored into the storage manager. Batches are always read and written from the storage manager whole.
The disk storage manager has a cap on the maximum number of open files to prevent running out of file handles. In cases with heavy buffering, this can cause wait times while waiting for a file handle to become available (the default max open files is 64).
When a tuple source is no longer needed, it is removed from the buffer manager. The buffer manager will remove it from both the memory storage manager and the disk storage manager. The disk storage manager will delete the file. In addition, every tuple source is tagged with a "group name" which is typically the session ID of the client. When the client's session is terminated (by closing the connection, server detecting client shutdown, or administrative termination), a call is sent to the buffer manager to remove all tuple sources for the session.
In addition, when the query engine is shutdown, the buffer manager is shut down, which will remove all state from the disk storage manager and cause all files to be closed. When the query engine is stopped, it is safe to delete any files in the buffer directory as they are not used across query engine restarts and must be due to a system crash where buffer files were not cleaned up.
When a query is canceled, processing will be stopped in the query engine and in all connectors involved in the query. The semantics of what a connector does in response to a cancellation command is dependent on the connector implementation. For example, JDBC connectors will asynchronously call cancel on the underlying JDBC driver, which may or may not actually support this method.
Timeouts in Teiid are managed on the client-side, in the JDBC API (which underlies both SOAP and ODBC access). Timeouts are only relevant for the first record returned. If the first record has not been received by the client within the specified timeout period, a ‘cancel’ command is issued to the server for the request and no results are returned to the client. The cancel command is issued by the JDBC API without the client’s intervention.
Nested loop does the most obvious processing – for every row in the outer source, it compares with every row in the inner source. Nested loop is only used when the join criteria has no equi-join predicates.
Merge join first sorts the input sources on the joined columns. You can then walk through each side in parallel (effectively one pass through each sorted source) and when you have a match, emit a row. In general, merge join is on the order of n+m rather than n*m in nested loop. Merge join is the default algorithm.
Any of the Join Algorithms above can be made into a dependent join. The decision to implement a dependent join is considered after the join algorithm is chosen, and does not currently influence the algorithm selection.
Sorting is used as the basis of the Sort (ORDER BY), Grouping (GROUP BY), and DupRemoval (SELECT DISTINCT) operations. The sort algorithm is a multi-pass merge-sort that does not require all of the result set to ever be in memory yet uses the maximal amount of memory allowed by the buffer manager.
It consists of two phases. The first phase (“sort”) will take an unsorted input stream and produce one or more sorted input streams. Each pass reads as much of the unsorted stream as possible, sorts it, and writes it back out as a new stream. Since the stream may be more than can fit in memory, this may result in many sorted streams.
The second phase (“merge”) consists of a set of phases that grab the next batch from as many sorted input streams as will fit in memory. It then repeatedly grabs the next tuple in sorted order from each stream and outputs merged sorted batches to a new sorted stream. At completion of the pass, all input streams are dropped. In this way, each pass reduces the number of sorted streams. When only one stream remains, it is the final output.