Introduction

This API will help you optimize your sql queries for better performance.

How to use

Create an optimizer object specific to a single (database, schema) pair e.g. optimizer = get_optimizer("presto", schema)

Get optimization hints using optimize_query(query) e.g. presto_op.optimize_query(query)

Initial Optimization Checks

• Using approximate algorithms (approx_distinct() instead of COUNT(DISTINCT ...))
• Selecting the columns the user wants explicitly, rather than using (SELECT *)
• Filtering on partitioned columns
• Try to extract nested subqueries using a WITH clause.
• Suggest filtering on most effective columns, by parquet-file ordering
• Eliminate filtering overhead for partitioned columns

Other Stuff

• Replace UNION with UNION ALL if duplicates do not need to be removed
• Aggregate a series of LIKE clauses into one regexp_like expression
• Push down a complex join condition into a sub query
• Specify GROUP BY targets with numbers for expressions

Testing

To run unit tests, run py.test (or py.test -s to see stdout) in the tests directory.