Refactor social network data load script to use just 20 queries#41
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Product change and motivation
The
social-networksample dataset now loads its data using very few queries (20, down from about 4800).This allows HTTP-based clients to load it very quickly without getting bottlenecked hard by network latency.
Implementation
By making the
matchstages much chunkier we can drastically cut down on the total number ofinsertstages required to insert all data. For some types, we go from N queries to 1 for insertion of all instances of said type.Note that due to a quirk of TypeDB server at the time of writing the chunky
matchstages are themselves chunked into pipelines that look likematch-match-match .... match-insert, sometimes with as many as 100 match stages. This drastically improves performance.