How Hulu Supercharges OLAP Queries with CarbonData: Real‑World Optimizations
This article describes Hulu’s real‑world OLAP query optimization, covering the fundamentals of OLAP, comparisons of row‑ and column‑based storage formats, detailed indexing mechanisms of Parquet, ORC and CarbonData, and the specific schema, shuffle, block size, speculation and GC tuning techniques that enabled CarbonData to dramatically accelerate wide‑table queries on SparkSQL.
