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Databricks Liquid Clustering

Prashanth24
New Contributor III

Liquid Clustering is a combination of Partitioning and Zordering. As we know, partitioning will create folders based on the column values and stores the similar value. I believe Liquid Clustering will not create folders like partitioning, so how it will take care internally?

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youssefmrini
Honored Contributor III

why do you think Liquid Clustering uses Z ordering?

I recommend you  read the design paper https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FWR3odjOw4v4-hjFy_hVaNdxHVs4WuK1asfB6M6XEMw/edit#heading=h.skpz7...

Design Doc] Liquid Clustering Author: Date: Motivation 1 Hive-style partitioning 2 ZORDER clustering 2 Terminology 2 Requirements 2 Functional requirements 2 User surface 3 Proposal Sketch 4 Better clustering with Hilbert curves 4 Incremental clustering using ZCube 7 User surface 10 Proto...

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