This patch introduces a GroupByStrategy concept and two strategies: "v1"
is the current groupBy strategy and "v2" is a new one. It also introduces
a merge buffers concept in DruidProcessingModule, to try to better
manage memory used for merging.
Both of these are described in more detail in #2987.
There are two goals of this patch:
1. Make it possible for historical/realtime nodes to return larger groupBy
result sets, faster, with better memory management.
2. Make it possible for brokers to merge streams when there are no order-by
columns, avoiding materialization.
This patch does not do anything to help with memory management on the broker
when there are order-by columns or when there are nested queries. That could
potentially be done in a future patch.
Gian Merlino
binlijin
Himanshu Gupta
Charles Allen
Xavier Léauté