Project: Apache CarbonData (App Definition and Development / Database)
File: bloomfilter-index-guide.md

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Properties for BloomFilter Index | Property | Is Required | Default Value | Description | |-|-|--|| | BLOOM_SIZE | NO | 640000 | This value is internally used by BloomFilter as the number of expected insertions, it will affect the size of BloomFilter index. Since each blocklet has a BloomFilter here, so the default value is the approximate distinct index values in a blocklet assuming that each blocklet contains 20 pages and each page contains 32000 records. The value should be an integer. | | BLOOMFPP | NO | 0.00001 | This value is internally used by BloomFilter as the False-Positive Probability, it will affect the size of bloomfilter index as well as the number of hash functions for the BloomFilter. The value should be in the range (0, 1). In one test scenario, a 96GB TPCH customer table with bloomsize=320000 and bloom_fpp=0.00001 will result in 18 false positive samples. | | BLOOM_COMPRESS | NO | true | Whether to compress the BloomFilter index files. | When loading data to main table, BloomFilter files will be generated for all the index_columns provided in the CREATE statement which contains the blockletId and a BloomFilter for each index column. These index files will be written inside a folder named with Index name inside each segment folders. User can verify whether a query can leverage BloomFilter Index by executing `EXPLAIN` command, which will show the transformed logical plan, and thus user can check whether the BloomFilter Index can skip blocklets during the scan. If the Index does not prune blocklets well, you can try to increase the value of property `BLOOMSIZE` and decrease the value of property `BLOOMFPP`. Data management with BloomFilter Index has no difference with that on Lucene Index. You can refer to the corresponding section in BloomFilter Index is suggested to be created on the high cardinality columns. Query conditions on these columns are always simple `equal` or `in`, such as 'col1=XX', 'col1 in (XX, YY)'. We can create multiple BloomFilter Indexes on one table, but we do recommend you to create one BloomFilter Index that contains multiple index columns, because the data loading and query performance will be better. `BLOOM_FPP` is only the expected number from user, the actual FPP may be worse. If the BloomFilter Index does not work well, you can try to increase `BLOOMSIZE` and decrease `BLOOMFPP` at the same time. Notice that bigger `BLOOM_SIZE` will increase the size of index file and smaller `BLOOM_FPP` will increase runtime calculation while performing query. '0' skipped blocklets of BloomFilter Index in explain output indicates that BloomFilter Index does not prune better than Main Index. (For example since the data is not ordered, a specific value may be contained in many blocklets. In this case, bloom may not work better than Main Index.) If this occurs very often, it means that current BloomFilter is useless. You can disable or drop it. Sometimes we cannot see any pruning result about BloomFilter Index in the explain output, this indicates that the previous Index has pruned all the blocklets and there is no need to continue pruning. In some scenarios, the BloomFilter Index may not enhance the query performance significantly but if it can reduce the number of spark task, there is still a chance that BloomFilter Index can enhance the performance for concurrent query. Note that BloomFilter Index will decrease the data loading performance and may cause slight storage expansion (for index file).