spark-instrumented-optimizer/sql/core
Zhenhua Wang 11b60af737 [SPARK-17074][SQL] Generate equi-height histogram in column statistics
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Equi-height histogram is effective in cardinality estimation, and more accurate than basic column stats (min, max, ndv, etc) especially in skew distribution. So we need to support it.

For equi-height histogram, all buckets (intervals) have the same height (frequency).
In this PR, we use a two-step method to generate an equi-height histogram:
1. use `ApproximatePercentile` to get percentiles `p(0), p(1/n), p(2/n) ... p((n-1)/n), p(1)`;
2. construct range values of buckets, e.g. `[p(0), p(1/n)], [p(1/n), p(2/n)] ... [p((n-1)/n), p(1)]`, and use `ApproxCountDistinctForIntervals` to count ndv in each bucket. Each bucket is of the form: `(lowerBound, higherBound, ndv)`.

## How was this patch tested?

Added new test cases and modified some existing test cases.

Author: Zhenhua Wang <wangzhenhua@huawei.com>
Author: Zhenhua Wang <wzh_zju@163.com>

Closes #19479 from wzhfy/generate_histogram.
2017-11-14 16:41:43 +01:00
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benchmarks [SPARK-17335][SQL] Fix ArrayType and MapType CatalogString. 2016-09-03 19:02:20 +02:00
src [SPARK-17074][SQL] Generate equi-height histogram in column statistics 2017-11-14 16:41:43 +01:00
pom.xml [SPARK-20978][SQL] Bump up Univocity version to 2.5.4 2017-09-05 23:21:43 +08:00