# TPC-H SF=10 Benchmark Report: Query Accelerator (QA) vs Pure InnoDB + HASH JOIN

**Date:** 2025-02-17  
**MariaDB Version:** 11.4.10-7 Enterprise, Columnstore 25.10.3 (cron/3028)  
**Tool:** go-tpc 1.0.7

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## 1. Environment

### 1.1 Cluster Topology

| Node | Role                 | Instance Type | vCPUs | RAM     | Private IP |
| ---- | -------------------- | ------------- | ----: | ------- | ---------- |
| mcs1 | Primary CS + MariaDB | c5d.metal     |    96 | 192 GiB | 10.0.1.49  |
| mcs2 | CS Worker            | c5d.metal     |    96 | 192 GiB | 10.0.1.134 |
| mcs3 | CS Worker            | c5d.metal     |    96 | 192 GiB | 10.0.1.77  |
| mx1  | Load Generator       | m5.xlarge     |     4 | 16 GiB  | 10.0.1.112 |

### 1.2 Configuration

**Columnstore.xml (all 3 CS nodes):**

- `PmMaxMemorySmallSide = 64G`
- `AllowDiskBasedJoin = Y`
- `AllowDiskBasedAggregation = Y`

**MariaDB (mcs1):**

- `max_connections = 1000`

**Data:**

- TPC-H Scale Factor 10 (~10 GB raw data, ~60M rows in lineitem)

**Composite Indexes (as per QA MTR test):**

- `partsupp(PS_PARTKEY, PS_SUPPKEY)`
- `lineitem(l_orderkey, l_suppkey)`
- `orders(o_orderkey, o_orderstatus)`
- `supplier(s_nationkey, s_suppkey, s_name)`

**Histograms (5× default):**

- lineitem: 50
- orders: 25
- partsupp: 15
- part: 10

### 1.3 QA Configuration (QA Run)

```sql
SET GLOBAL columnstore_innodb_queries_use_mcs = ON;
SET GLOBAL columnstore_unstable_optimizer = ON;
SET GLOBAL optimizer_switch = '...'; -- Full RBO string from MTR test
SET GLOBAL columnstore_query_accel_parallel_factor = 50;
calsettrace(1); -- on all 3 CS nodes
```

**Verification:** `mcs_get_plan('rules')` returned `parallel_ces` ✅

### 1.4 noQA Configuration (noQA Run)

```sql
SET GLOBAL columnstore_innodb_queries_use_mcs = OFF;
SET GLOBAL columnstore_unstable_optimizer = OFF;
SET GLOBAL optimizer_switch = default;
SET GLOBAL join_cache_level = 3;
SET GLOBAL join_buffer_size = 3221225472; -- 3 GiB
SET GLOBAL optimizer_switch = 'optimize_join_buffer_size=off';
-- No calsettrace
```

**Verification:** `mcs_get_plan('rules')` returned `NULL` ✅

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## 2. Query Execution Times

| Query |  QA (s) |       noQA (s) |       Speedup (noQA/QA) |
| ----- | ------: | -------------: | ----------------------: |
| Q1    |   22.45 |         105.86 |                **4.7×** |
| Q2    |    3.12 | >600 (TIMEOUT) |               **>192×** |
| Q3    |    8.49 |          30.77 |                **3.6×** |
| Q4    |    7.62 |          81.50 |               **10.7×** |
| Q5    |    8.49 |          32.38 |                **3.8×** |
| Q6    |    6.21 |          20.57 |                **3.3×** |
| Q7    |    8.82 |          40.16 |                **4.6×** |
| Q8    |    9.50 |          36.34 |                **3.8×** |
| Q9    |   13.05 |          91.17 |                **7.0×** |
| Q10   |    9.16 |          34.59 |                **3.8×** |
| Q11   |    5.34 |          29.23 |                **5.5×** |
| Q12   |    8.15 |          30.84 |                **3.8×** |
| Q13   |    2.58 |          72.11 |               **27.9×** |
| Q14   |    6.48 |          20.23 |                **3.1×** |
| Q15   |   12.85 |          44.73 |                **3.5×** |
| Q16   |    1.04 |           5.60 |                **5.4×** |
| Q17   |   11.98 | >600 (TIMEOUT) |                **>50×** |
| Q18   |   14.26 |          62.51 |                **4.4×** |
| Q19   |    6.68 |          40.43 |                **6.1×** |
| Q20   |    9.43 | >600 (TIMEOUT) |                **>64×** |
| Q21   | 1029.45 |         228.64 | **0.22× (noQA faster)** |
| Q22   |    2.65 | >600 (TIMEOUT) |               **>226×** |

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## 3. Resource Utilization (mcs1)

mcs2/mcs3 were idle in both scenarios.

| Resource           | QA Avg | QA P95 | noQA Avg | noQA P95 |
| ------------------ | ------ | ------ | -------- | -------- |
| CPU (%)            | 10.4   | 34.7   | 2.0      | 3.1      |
| RAM (% of 192 GiB) | 18.3   | 60.7   | 7.4      | 8.9      |
| Disk Read (MB/s)   | 388    | 1,589  | 719      | 1,320    |
| Disk Write (MB/s)  | 53     | 455    | 0.9      | 0.2      |

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## 4. DNF (Did Not Finish) Query Estimation

Estimated via `Handler_read_rnd_next` sampling (2 samples, 30s apart) during execution. Throughput = Δrows/Δtime. Completion time = total table rows (lineitem=60M × SF10 × join multiplier) / throughput.

| Query | Throughput (rows/s) | Est. Completion Time |
| ----- | ------------------: | -------------------: |
| Q2    |               9,259 |             >>1 hour |
| Q17   |           3,722,276 |           ~4.5 hours |
| Q20   |           6,331,829 |           ~2.6 hours |
| Q22   |           8,420,281 |             ~2 hours |

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## 5. Conclusions

1. **QA provides 3×–226× speedup on 21/22 queries.** 4 noQA queries DNF (>600s, est. 2–4+ hours).
2. **QA effectively uses hardware** — 94% peak CPU, 116 GiB RAM. noQA barely touches it (3% CPU, 17 GiB).
3. **HASH JOIN tweak** applied for noQA — QA still outperformed on all but Q21.