[HUDI-2872][HUDI-2646] Refactoring layout optimization (clustering) flow to support linear ordering (#4606)

Refactoring layout optimization (clustering) flow to
- Enable support for linear (lexicographic) ordering as one of the ordering strategies (along w/ Z-order, Hilbert)
- Reconcile Layout Optimization and Clustering configuration to be more congruent

hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieClusteringConfig.java

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ public class HoodieClusteringConfig extends HoodieConfig {
       "hoodie.clustering.plan.partition.filter.mode";
 
   // Any Space-filling curves optimize(z-order/hilbert) params can be saved with this prefix
-  public static final String LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_PARAM_PREFIX = "hoodie.layout.optimize.";
+  private static final String LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_PARAM_PREFIX = "hoodie.layout.optimize.";
 
   public static final ConfigProperty<String> DAYBASED_LOOKBACK_PARTITIONS = ConfigProperty
       .key(CLUSTERING_STRATEGY_PARAM_PREFIX + "daybased.lookback.partitions")
@@ -190,63 +190,88 @@ public class HoodieClusteringConfig extends HoodieConfig {
       .withDocumentation("When rewriting data, preserves existing hoodie_commit_time");
 
   /**
-   * Using space-filling curves to optimize the layout of table to boost query performance.
+   * @deprecated this setting has no effect. Please refer to clustering configuration, as well as
-   * The table data which sorted by space-filling curve has better aggregation;
+   * {@link #LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_STRATEGY} config to enable advanced record layout optimization strategies
-   * combine with min-max filtering, it can achieve good performance improvement.
-   *
-   * Notice:
-   * when we use this feature, we need specify the sort columns.
-   * The more columns involved in sorting, the worse the aggregation, and the smaller the query performance improvement.
-   * Choose the filter columns which commonly used in query sql as sort columns.
-   * It is recommend that 2 ~ 4 columns participate in sorting.
    */
   public static final ConfigProperty LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_ENABLE = ConfigProperty
       .key(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_PARAM_PREFIX + "enable")
       .defaultValue(false)
       .sinceVersion("0.10.0")
-      .withDocumentation("Enable use z-ordering/space-filling curves to optimize the layout of table to boost query performance. "
+      .deprecatedAfter("0.11.0")
-          + "This parameter takes precedence over clustering strategy set using " + EXECUTION_STRATEGY_CLASS_NAME.key());
+      .withDocumentation("This setting has no effect. Please refer to clustering configuration, as well as "
-
+          + "LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_STRATEGY config to enable advanced record layout optimization strategies");
-  public static final ConfigProperty LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_STRATEGY = ConfigProperty
-      .key(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_PARAM_PREFIX + "strategy")
-      .defaultValue("z-order")
-      .sinceVersion("0.10.0")
-      .withDocumentation("Type of layout optimization to be applied, current only supports `z-order` and `hilbert` curves.");
 
   /**
-   * There exists two method to build z-curve.
+   * Determines ordering strategy in for records layout optimization.
-   * one is directly mapping sort cols to z-value to build z-curve;
+   * Currently, following strategies are supported
-   * we can find this method in Amazon DynamoDB https://aws.amazon.com/cn/blogs/database/tag/z-order/
+   * <ul>
-   * the other one is Boundary-based Interleaved Index method which we proposed. simply call it sample method.
+   *   <li>Linear: simply orders records lexicographically</li>
-   * Refer to rfc-28 for specific algorithm flow.
+   *   <li>Z-order: orders records along Z-order spatial-curve</li>
-   * Boundary-based Interleaved Index method has better generalization, but the build speed is slower than direct method.
+   *   <li>Hilbert: orders records along Hilbert's spatial-curve</li>
+   * </ul>
+   *
+   * NOTE: "z-order", "hilbert" strategies may consume considerably more compute, than "linear".
+   *       Make sure to perform small-scale local testing for your dataset before applying globally.
    */
-  public static final ConfigProperty LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD = ConfigProperty
+  public static final ConfigProperty<String> LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_STRATEGY = ConfigProperty
+      .key(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_PARAM_PREFIX + "strategy")
+      .defaultValue("linear")
+      .sinceVersion("0.10.0")
+      .withDocumentation("Determines ordering strategy used in records layout optimization. "
+          + "Currently supported strategies are \"linear\", \"z-order\" and \"hilbert\" values are supported.");
+
+  /**
+   * NOTE: This setting only has effect if {@link #LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_STRATEGY} value is set to
+   *       either "z-order" or "hilbert" (ie leveraging space-filling curves)
+   *
+   * Currently, two methods to order records along the curve are supported "build" and "sample":
+   *
+   * <ul>
+   *   <li>Direct: entails that spatial curve will be built in full, "filling in" all of the individual
+   *   points corresponding to each individual record</li>
+   *   <li>Sample: leverages boundary-base interleaved index method (described in more details in
+   *   Amazon DynamoDB blog [1])</li>
+   * </ul>
+   *
+   * NOTE: Boundary-based interleaved Index method has better generalization,
+   *       but is slower than direct method.
+   *
+   * Please refer to RFC-28 for specific elaboration on both flows.
+   *
+   * [1] https://aws.amazon.com/cn/blogs/database/tag/z-order/
+   */
+  public static final ConfigProperty<String> LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_SPATIAL_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD = ConfigProperty
       .key(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_PARAM_PREFIX + "curve.build.method")
       .defaultValue("direct")
       .sinceVersion("0.10.0")
-      .withDocumentation("Controls how data is sampled to build the space filling curves. two methods: `direct`,`sample`."
+      .withDocumentation("Controls how data is sampled to build the space-filling curves. "
-          + "The direct method is faster than the sampling, however sample method would produce a better data layout.");
+          + "Two methods: \"direct\", \"sample\". The direct method is faster than the sampling, "
+          + "however sample method would produce a better data layout.");
+
   /**
-   * Doing sample for table data is the first step in Boundary-based Interleaved Index method.
+   * NOTE: This setting only has effect if {@link #LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_SPATIAL_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD} value
-   * larger sample number means better optimize result, but more memory consumption
+   *       is set to "sample"
+   *
+   * Determines target sample size used by the Boundary-based Interleaved Index method.
+   * Larger sample size entails better layout optimization outcomes, at the expense of higher memory
+   * footprint.
    */
-  public static final ConfigProperty LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_BUILD_CURVE_SAMPLE_SIZE = ConfigProperty
+  public static final ConfigProperty<String> LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_BUILD_CURVE_SAMPLE_SIZE = ConfigProperty
       .key(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_PARAM_PREFIX + "build.curve.sample.size")
       .defaultValue("200000")
       .sinceVersion("0.10.0")
-      .withDocumentation("when setting" + LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD.key() + " to `sample`, the amount of sampling to be done."
+      .withDocumentation("Determines target sample size used by the Boundary-based Interleaved Index method "
-          + "Large sample size leads to better results, at the expense of more memory usage.");
+          + "of building space-filling curve. Larger sample size entails better layout optimization outcomes, "
+          + "at the expense of higher memory footprint.");
 
   /**
-   * The best way to use Z-order/Space-filling curves is to cooperate with Data-Skipping
+   * @deprecated this setting has no effect
-   * with data-skipping query engine can greatly reduce the number of table files to be read.
-   * otherwise query engine can only do row-group skipping for files (parquet/orc)
    */
   public static final ConfigProperty LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_DATA_SKIPPING_ENABLE = ConfigProperty
       .key(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_PARAM_PREFIX + "data.skipping.enable")
       .defaultValue(true)
       .sinceVersion("0.10.0")
+      .deprecatedAfter("0.11.0")
       .withDocumentation("Enable data skipping by collecting statistics once layout optimization is complete.");
 
   public static final ConfigProperty<Boolean> ROLLBACK_PENDING_CLUSTERING_ON_CONFLICT = ConfigProperty
@@ -516,18 +541,13 @@ public class HoodieClusteringConfig extends HoodieConfig {
       return this;
     }
 
-    public Builder withSpaceFillingCurveDataOptimizeEnable(Boolean enable) {
-      clusteringConfig.setValue(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_ENABLE, String.valueOf(enable));
-      return this;
-    }
-
     public Builder withDataOptimizeStrategy(String strategy) {
       clusteringConfig.setValue(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_STRATEGY, strategy);
       return this;
     }
 
     public Builder withDataOptimizeBuildCurveStrategy(String method) {
-      clusteringConfig.setValue(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD, method);
+      clusteringConfig.setValue(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_SPATIAL_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD, method);
       return this;
     }
 
@@ -536,11 +556,6 @@ public class HoodieClusteringConfig extends HoodieConfig {
       return this;
     }
 
-    public Builder withDataOptimizeDataSkippingEnable(boolean dataSkipping) {
-      clusteringConfig.setValue(LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_DATA_SKIPPING_ENABLE, String.valueOf(dataSkipping));
-      return this;
-    }
-
     public HoodieClusteringConfig build() {
       clusteringConfig.setDefaultValue(
           PLAN_STRATEGY_CLASS_NAME, getDefaultPlanStrategyClassName(engineType));
@@ -578,21 +593,21 @@ public class HoodieClusteringConfig extends HoodieConfig {
   /**
    * Type of a strategy for building Z-order/Hilbert space-filling curves.
    */
-  public enum BuildCurveStrategyType {
+  public enum SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType {
     DIRECT("direct"),
     SAMPLE("sample");
 
-    private static final Map<String, BuildCurveStrategyType> VALUE_TO_ENUM_MAP =
+    private static final Map<String, SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType> VALUE_TO_ENUM_MAP =
-        TypeUtils.getValueToEnumMap(BuildCurveStrategyType.class, e -> e.value);
+        TypeUtils.getValueToEnumMap(SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType.class, e -> e.value);
 
     private final String value;
 
-    BuildCurveStrategyType(String value) {
+    SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType(String value) {
       this.value = value;
     }
 
-    public static BuildCurveStrategyType fromValue(String value) {
+    public static SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType fromValue(String value) {
-      BuildCurveStrategyType enumValue = VALUE_TO_ENUM_MAP.get(value);
+      SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType enumValue = VALUE_TO_ENUM_MAP.get(value);
       if (enumValue == null) {
         throw new HoodieException(String.format("Invalid value (%s)", value));
       }
@@ -605,6 +620,7 @@ public class HoodieClusteringConfig extends HoodieConfig {
    * Layout optimization strategies such as Z-order/Hilbert space-curves, etc
    */
   public enum LayoutOptimizationStrategy {
+    LINEAR("linear"),
     ZORDER("z-order"),
     HILBERT("hilbert");
 

hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java

@@ -1288,30 +1288,21 @@ public class HoodieWriteConfig extends HoodieConfig {
     return getString(HoodieClusteringConfig.PLAN_STRATEGY_SORT_COLUMNS);
   }
 
-  /**
+  public HoodieClusteringConfig.LayoutOptimizationStrategy getLayoutOptimizationStrategy() {
-   * Data layout optimize properties.
+    return HoodieClusteringConfig.LayoutOptimizationStrategy.fromValue(
-   */
+        getStringOrDefault(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_STRATEGY)
-  public boolean isLayoutOptimizationEnabled() {
+    );
-    return getBoolean(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_ENABLE);
   }
 
-  public String getLayoutOptimizationStrategy() {
+  public HoodieClusteringConfig.SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType getLayoutOptimizationCurveBuildMethod() {
-    return getString(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_STRATEGY);
+    return HoodieClusteringConfig.SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType.fromValue(
-  }
+        getString(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_SPATIAL_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD));
-
-  public HoodieClusteringConfig.BuildCurveStrategyType getLayoutOptimizationCurveBuildMethod() {
-    return HoodieClusteringConfig.BuildCurveStrategyType.fromValue(
-        getString(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD));
   }
 
   public int getLayoutOptimizationSampleSize() {
     return getInt(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_BUILD_CURVE_SAMPLE_SIZE);
   }
 
-  public boolean isDataSkippingEnabled() {
-    return getBoolean(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_DATA_SKIPPING_ENABLE);
-  }
-
   /**
    * index properties.
    */

hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/SparkRDDWriteClient.java

@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ public class SparkRDDWriteClient<T extends HoodieRecordPayload> extends
       this.txnManager.beginTransaction(Option.of(compactionInstant), Option.empty());
       finalizeWrite(table, compactionCommitTime, writeStats);
       // commit to data table after committing to metadata table.
-      writeTableMetadataForTableServices(table, metadata, compactionInstant);
+      updateTableMetadata(table, metadata, compactionInstant);
       LOG.info("Committing Compaction " + compactionCommitTime + ". Finished with result " + metadata);
       CompactHelpers.getInstance().completeInflightCompaction(table, compactionCommitTime, metadata);
     } finally {
@@ -378,17 +378,20 @@ public class SparkRDDWriteClient<T extends HoodieRecordPayload> extends
       throw new HoodieClusteringException("Clustering failed to write to files:"
           + writeStats.stream().filter(s -> s.getTotalWriteErrors() > 0L).map(s -> s.getFileId()).collect(Collectors.joining(",")));
     }
+
     final HoodieInstant clusteringInstant = new HoodieInstant(HoodieInstant.State.INFLIGHT, HoodieTimeline.REPLACE_COMMIT_ACTION, clusteringCommitTime);
     try {
       this.txnManager.beginTransaction(Option.of(clusteringInstant), Option.empty());
+
       finalizeWrite(table, clusteringCommitTime, writeStats);
-      writeTableMetadataForTableServices(table, metadata,clusteringInstant);
+      // Update table's metadata (table)
-      // Update outstanding metadata indexes
+      updateTableMetadata(table, metadata, clusteringInstant);
-      if (config.isLayoutOptimizationEnabled()
+      // Update tables' metadata indexes
-          && !config.getClusteringSortColumns().isEmpty()) {
+      // NOTE: This overlaps w/ metadata table (above) and will be reconciled in the future
       table.updateMetadataIndexes(context, writeStats, clusteringCommitTime);
-      }
+
       LOG.info("Committing Clustering " + clusteringCommitTime + ". Finished with result " + metadata);
+
       table.getActiveTimeline().transitionReplaceInflightToComplete(
           HoodieTimeline.getReplaceCommitInflightInstant(clusteringCommitTime),
           Option.of(metadata.toJsonString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
@@ -412,13 +415,13 @@ public class SparkRDDWriteClient<T extends HoodieRecordPayload> extends
     LOG.info("Clustering successfully on commit " + clusteringCommitTime);
   }
 
-  private void writeTableMetadataForTableServices(HoodieTable<T, JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>>, JavaRDD<HoodieKey>, JavaRDD<WriteStatus>> table, HoodieCommitMetadata commitMetadata,
+  private void updateTableMetadata(HoodieTable<T, JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>>, JavaRDD<HoodieKey>, JavaRDD<WriteStatus>> table, HoodieCommitMetadata commitMetadata,
                                    HoodieInstant hoodieInstant) {
     boolean isTableServiceAction = table.isTableServiceAction(hoodieInstant.getAction());
     // Do not do any conflict resolution here as we do with regular writes. We take the lock here to ensure all writes to metadata table happens within a
     // single lock (single writer). Because more than one write to metadata table will result in conflicts since all of them updates the same partition.
-    table.getMetadataWriter(hoodieInstant.getTimestamp()).ifPresent(
+    table.getMetadataWriter(hoodieInstant.getTimestamp())
-        w -> w.update(commitMetadata, hoodieInstant.getTimestamp(), isTableServiceAction));
+        .ifPresent(writer -> writer.update(commitMetadata, hoodieInstant.getTimestamp(), isTableServiceAction));
   }
 
   @Override

hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/clustering/run/strategy/MultipleSparkJobExecutionStrategy.java

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 
 package org.apache.hudi.client.clustering.run.strategy;
 
+import org.apache.avro.Schema;
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
+import org.apache.avro.generic.IndexedRecord;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hudi.avro.HoodieAvroUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.avro.model.HoodieClusteringGroup;
 import org.apache.hudi.avro.model.HoodieClusteringPlan;
@@ -39,11 +43,12 @@ import org.apache.hudi.common.util.FutureUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.Option;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.collection.Pair;
+import org.apache.hudi.config.HoodieClusteringConfig;
 import org.apache.hudi.config.HoodieWriteConfig;
 import org.apache.hudi.exception.HoodieClusteringException;
 import org.apache.hudi.exception.HoodieIOException;
 import org.apache.hudi.execution.bulkinsert.RDDCustomColumnsSortPartitioner;
-import org.apache.hudi.execution.bulkinsert.RDDSpatialCurveOptimizationSortPartitioner;
+import org.apache.hudi.execution.bulkinsert.RDDSpatialCurveSortPartitioner;
 import org.apache.hudi.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.io.storage.HoodieFileReader;
 import org.apache.hudi.io.storage.HoodieFileReaderFactory;
@@ -54,11 +59,6 @@ import org.apache.hudi.table.BulkInsertPartitioner;
 import org.apache.hudi.table.HoodieTable;
 import org.apache.hudi.table.action.HoodieWriteMetadata;
 import org.apache.hudi.table.action.cluster.strategy.ClusteringExecutionStrategy;
-
-import org.apache.avro.Schema;
-import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
-import org.apache.avro.generic.IndexedRecord;
-import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
@@ -134,16 +134,28 @@ public abstract class MultipleSparkJobExecutionStrategy<T extends HoodieRecordPa
    * @return {@link RDDCustomColumnsSortPartitioner} if sort columns are provided, otherwise empty.
    */
   protected Option<BulkInsertPartitioner<T>> getPartitioner(Map<String, String> strategyParams, Schema schema) {
-    if (getWriteConfig().isLayoutOptimizationEnabled()) {
+    Option<String[]> orderByColumnsOpt =
-      // sort input records by z-order/hilbert
+        Option.ofNullable(strategyParams.get(PLAN_STRATEGY_SORT_COLUMNS.key()))
-      return Option.of(new RDDSpatialCurveOptimizationSortPartitioner((HoodieSparkEngineContext) getEngineContext(),
+            .map(listStr -> listStr.split(","));
-          getWriteConfig(), HoodieAvroUtils.addMetadataFields(schema)));
+
-    } else if (strategyParams.containsKey(PLAN_STRATEGY_SORT_COLUMNS.key())) {
+    return orderByColumnsOpt.map(orderByColumns -> {
-      return Option.of(new RDDCustomColumnsSortPartitioner(strategyParams.get(PLAN_STRATEGY_SORT_COLUMNS.key()).split(","),
+      HoodieClusteringConfig.LayoutOptimizationStrategy layoutOptStrategy = getWriteConfig().getLayoutOptimizationStrategy();
-          HoodieAvroUtils.addMetadataFields(schema), getWriteConfig().isConsistentLogicalTimestampEnabled()));
+      switch (layoutOptStrategy) {
-    } else {
+        case ZORDER:
-      return Option.empty();
+        case HILBERT:
+          return new RDDSpatialCurveSortPartitioner(
+              (HoodieSparkEngineContext) getEngineContext(),
+              orderByColumns,
+              layoutOptStrategy,
+              getWriteConfig().getLayoutOptimizationCurveBuildMethod(),
+              HoodieAvroUtils.addMetadataFields(schema));
+        case LINEAR:
+          return new RDDCustomColumnsSortPartitioner(orderByColumns, HoodieAvroUtils.addMetadataFields(schema),
+              getWriteConfig().isConsistentLogicalTimestampEnabled());
+        default:
+          throw new UnsupportedOperationException(String.format("Layout optimization strategy '%s' is not supported", layoutOptStrategy));
       }
+    });
   }
 
   /**

hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/clustering/run/strategy/SingleSparkJobExecutionStrategy.java

@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ public abstract class SingleSparkJobExecutionStrategy<T extends HoodieRecordPayl
     Iterator<List<WriteStatus>> writeStatuses = performClusteringWithRecordsIterator(inputRecords, clusteringOps.getNumOutputGroups(), instantTime,
         strategyParams, schema.get(), inputFileIds, preserveHoodieMetadata, taskContextSupplier);
 
-    Iterable<List<WriteStatus>> writestatusIterable = () -> writeStatuses;
+    Iterable<List<WriteStatus>> writeStatusIterable = () -> writeStatuses;
-    return StreamSupport.stream(writestatusIterable.spliterator(), false)
+    return StreamSupport.stream(writeStatusIterable.spliterator(), false)
         .flatMap(writeStatusList -> writeStatusList.stream());
   }
 

hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/execution/bulkinsert/RDDSpatialCurveSortPartitioner.java

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieKey;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieRecord;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieRecordPayload;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.model.RewriteAvroPayload;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.Option;
 import org.apache.hudi.config.HoodieClusteringConfig;
-import org.apache.hudi.config.HoodieWriteConfig;
 import org.apache.hudi.sort.SpaceCurveSortingHelper;
 import org.apache.hudi.table.BulkInsertPartitioner;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
@@ -38,31 +38,51 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
 
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.stream.Collectors;
-
-import static org.apache.hudi.common.util.StringUtils.isNullOrEmpty;
 
 /**
  * A partitioner that does spatial curve optimization sorting based on specified column values for each RDD partition.
  * support z-curve optimization, hilbert will come soon.
  * @param <T> HoodieRecordPayload type
  */
-public class RDDSpatialCurveOptimizationSortPartitioner<T extends HoodieRecordPayload>
+public class RDDSpatialCurveSortPartitioner<T extends HoodieRecordPayload>
     implements BulkInsertPartitioner<JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>>> {
-  private final HoodieSparkEngineContext sparkEngineContext;
-  private final SerializableSchema serializableSchema;
-  private final HoodieWriteConfig config;
 
-  public RDDSpatialCurveOptimizationSortPartitioner(HoodieSparkEngineContext sparkEngineContext, HoodieWriteConfig config, Schema schema) {
+  private final HoodieSparkEngineContext sparkEngineContext;
+  private final String[] orderByColumns;
+  private final Schema schema;
+  private final HoodieClusteringConfig.LayoutOptimizationStrategy layoutOptStrategy;
+  private final HoodieClusteringConfig.SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType curveCompositionStrategyType;
+
+  public RDDSpatialCurveSortPartitioner(HoodieSparkEngineContext sparkEngineContext,
+                                        String[] orderByColumns,
+                                        HoodieClusteringConfig.LayoutOptimizationStrategy layoutOptStrategy,
+                                        HoodieClusteringConfig.SpatialCurveCompositionStrategyType curveCompositionStrategyType,
+                                        Schema schema) {
     this.sparkEngineContext = sparkEngineContext;
-    this.config = config;
+    this.orderByColumns = orderByColumns;
-    this.serializableSchema = new SerializableSchema(schema);
+    this.layoutOptStrategy = layoutOptStrategy;
+    this.curveCompositionStrategyType = curveCompositionStrategyType;
+    this.schema = schema;
   }
 
   @Override
   public JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>> repartitionRecords(JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>> records, int outputSparkPartitions) {
-    JavaRDD<GenericRecord> preparedRecord = prepareGenericRecord(records, outputSparkPartitions, serializableSchema.get());
+    SerializableSchema serializableSchema = new SerializableSchema(schema);
-    return preparedRecord.map(record -> {
+    JavaRDD<GenericRecord> genericRecordsRDD =
+        records.map(f -> (GenericRecord) f.getData().getInsertValue(serializableSchema.get()).get());
+
+    Dataset<Row> sourceDataset =
+        AvroConversionUtils.createDataFrame(
+            genericRecordsRDD.rdd(),
+            schema.toString(),
+            sparkEngineContext.getSqlContext().sparkSession()
+        );
+
+    Dataset<Row> sortedDataset = reorder(sourceDataset, outputSparkPartitions);
+
+    return HoodieSparkUtils.createRdd(sortedDataset, schema.getName(), schema.getNamespace(), false, Option.empty())
+        .toJavaRDD()
+        .map(record -> {
           String key = record.get(HoodieRecord.RECORD_KEY_METADATA_FIELD).toString();
           String partition = record.get(HoodieRecord.PARTITION_PATH_METADATA_FIELD).toString();
           HoodieKey hoodieKey = new HoodieKey(key, partition);
@@ -71,47 +91,21 @@ public class RDDSpatialCurveOptimizationSortPartitioner<T extends HoodieRecordPa
         });
   }
 
-  private JavaRDD<GenericRecord> prepareGenericRecord(JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>> inputRecords, final int numOutputGroups, final Schema schema) {
+  private Dataset<Row> reorder(Dataset<Row> dataset, int numOutputGroups) {
-    SerializableSchema serializableSchema = new SerializableSchema(schema);
+    if (orderByColumns.length == 0) {
-    JavaRDD<GenericRecord> genericRecordJavaRDD =  inputRecords.map(f -> (GenericRecord) f.getData().getInsertValue(serializableSchema.get()).get());
-    Dataset<Row> originDF =
-        AvroConversionUtils.createDataFrame(
-            genericRecordJavaRDD.rdd(),
-            schema.toString(),
-            sparkEngineContext.getSqlContext().sparkSession()
-        );
-
-    Dataset<Row> sortedDF = reorder(originDF, numOutputGroups);
-
-    return HoodieSparkUtils.createRdd(sortedDF, schema.getName(),
-        schema.getNamespace(), false, org.apache.hudi.common.util.Option.empty()).toJavaRDD();
-  }
-
-  private Dataset<Row> reorder(Dataset<Row> originDF, int numOutputGroups) {
-    String orderedColumnsListConfig = config.getClusteringSortColumns();
-
-    if (isNullOrEmpty(orderedColumnsListConfig) || numOutputGroups <= 0) {
       // No-op
-      return originDF;
+      return dataset;
     }
 
-    List<String> orderedCols =
+    List<String> orderedCols = Arrays.asList(orderByColumns);
-        Arrays.stream(orderedColumnsListConfig.split(","))
-            .map(String::trim)
-            .collect(Collectors.toList());
 
-    HoodieClusteringConfig.LayoutOptimizationStrategy layoutOptStrategy =
+    switch (curveCompositionStrategyType) {
-        HoodieClusteringConfig.LayoutOptimizationStrategy.fromValue(config.getLayoutOptimizationStrategy());
-
-    HoodieClusteringConfig.BuildCurveStrategyType curveBuildStrategyType = config.getLayoutOptimizationCurveBuildMethod();
-
-    switch (curveBuildStrategyType) {
       case DIRECT:
-        return SpaceCurveSortingHelper.orderDataFrameByMappingValues(originDF, layoutOptStrategy, orderedCols, numOutputGroups);
+        return SpaceCurveSortingHelper.orderDataFrameByMappingValues(dataset, layoutOptStrategy, orderedCols, numOutputGroups);
       case SAMPLE:
-        return SpaceCurveSortingHelper.orderDataFrameBySamplingValues(originDF, layoutOptStrategy, orderedCols, numOutputGroups);
+        return SpaceCurveSortingHelper.orderDataFrameBySamplingValues(dataset, layoutOptStrategy, orderedCols, numOutputGroups);
       default:
-        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(String.format("Unsupported space-curve curve building strategy (%s)", curveBuildStrategyType));
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(String.format("Unsupported space-curve curve building strategy (%s)", curveCompositionStrategyType));
     }
   }
 

hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/index/columnstats/ColumnStatsIndexHelper.java

@@ -262,10 +262,10 @@ public class ColumnStatsIndexHelper {
       // │   │   ├── <part-...>.parquet
       // │   │   └── ...
       //
-      // If index is currently empty (no persisted tables), we simply create one
-      // using clustering operation's commit instance as it's name
       Path newIndexTablePath = new Path(indexFolderPath, commitTime);
 
+      // If index is currently empty (no persisted tables), we simply create one
+      // using clustering operation's commit instance as it's name
       if (!fs.exists(new Path(indexFolderPath))) {
         newColStatsIndexDf.repartition(1)
             .write()
@@ -326,6 +326,9 @@ public class ColumnStatsIndexHelper {
           .repartition(1)
           .write()
           .format("parquet")
+          // NOTE: We intend to potentially overwrite index-table from the previous Clustering
+          //       operation that has failed to commit
+          .mode("overwrite")
           .save(newIndexTablePath.toString());
 
       // Clean up residual col-stats-index tables that have might have been dangling since

hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieSparkCopyOnWriteTable.java

@@ -184,13 +184,6 @@ public class HoodieSparkCopyOnWriteTable<T extends HoodieRecordPayload>
     String basePath = metaClient.getBasePath();
     String indexPath = metaClient.getColumnStatsIndexPath();
 
-    List<String> completedCommits =
-        metaClient.getCommitsTimeline()
-            .filterCompletedInstants()
-            .getInstants()
-            .map(HoodieInstant::getTimestamp)
-            .collect(Collectors.toList());
-
     List<String> touchedFiles =
         updatedFilesStats.stream()
             .map(s -> new Path(basePath, s.getPath()).toString())
@@ -214,6 +207,13 @@ public class HoodieSparkCopyOnWriteTable<T extends HoodieRecordPayload>
             new TableSchemaResolver(metaClient).getTableAvroSchemaWithoutMetadataFields()
         );
 
+    List<String> completedCommits =
+        metaClient.getCommitsTimeline()
+            .filterCompletedInstants()
+            .getInstants()
+            .map(HoodieInstant::getTimestamp)
+            .collect(Collectors.toList());
+
     ColumnStatsIndexHelper.updateColumnStatsIndexFor(
         sparkEngineContext.getSqlContext().sparkSession(),
         AvroConversionUtils.convertAvroSchemaToStructType(tableWriteSchema),

hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/DataSourceOptions.scala

@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ object DataSourceReadOptions {
     .key("hoodie.enable.data.skipping")
     .defaultValue(true)
     .sinceVersion("0.10.0")
-    .withDocumentation("enable data skipping to boost query after doing z-order optimize for current table")
+    .withDocumentation("Enables data-skipping allowing queries to leverage indexes to reduce the search space by " +
+      "skipping over files")
 
   /** @deprecated Use {@link QUERY_TYPE} and its methods instead */
   @Deprecated

hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestLayoutOptimization.scala

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
 import scala.util.Random
 
 @Tag("functional")
-class TestSpaceCurveLayoutOptimization extends HoodieClientTestBase {
+class TestLayoutOptimization extends HoodieClientTestBase {
   var spark: SparkSession = _
 
   val sourceTableSchema =
@@ -79,7 +79,13 @@ class TestSpaceCurveLayoutOptimization extends HoodieClientTestBase {
 
   @ParameterizedTest
   @MethodSource(Array("testLayoutOptimizationParameters"))
-  def testLayoutOptimizationFunctional(tableType: String): Unit = {
+  def testLayoutOptimizationFunctional(tableType: String,
+                                       layoutOptimizationStrategy: String,
+                                       spatialCurveCompositionStrategy: String): Unit = {
+    val curveCompositionStrategy =
+      Option(spatialCurveCompositionStrategy)
+        .getOrElse(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_SPATIAL_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD.defaultValue())
+
     val targetRecordsCount = 10000
     // Bulk Insert Operation
     val records = recordsToStrings(dataGen.generateInserts("001", targetRecordsCount)).toList
@@ -98,8 +104,9 @@ class TestSpaceCurveLayoutOptimization extends HoodieClientTestBase {
       .option("hoodie.clustering.plan.strategy.small.file.limit", "629145600")
       .option("hoodie.clustering.plan.strategy.max.bytes.per.group", Long.MaxValue.toString)
       .option("hoodie.clustering.plan.strategy.target.file.max.bytes", String.valueOf(64 * 1024 * 1024L))
-      .option(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_ENABLE.key, "true")
+      .option(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_STRATEGY.key(), layoutOptimizationStrategy)
-      .option(HoodieClusteringConfig.PLAN_STRATEGY_SORT_COLUMNS.key, "begin_lat, begin_lon")
+      .option(HoodieClusteringConfig.LAYOUT_OPTIMIZE_SPATIAL_CURVE_BUILD_METHOD.key(), curveCompositionStrategy)
+      .option(HoodieClusteringConfig.PLAN_STRATEGY_SORT_COLUMNS.key, "begin_lat,begin_lon")
       .mode(SaveMode.Overwrite)
       .save(basePath)
 
@@ -162,14 +169,20 @@ class TestSpaceCurveLayoutOptimization extends HoodieClientTestBase {
   }
 }
 
-object TestSpaceCurveLayoutOptimization {
+object TestLayoutOptimization {
   def testLayoutOptimizationParameters(): java.util.stream.Stream[Arguments] = {
     java.util.stream.Stream.of(
-      arguments("COPY_ON_WRITE", "hilbert"),
+      arguments("COPY_ON_WRITE", "linear", null),
-      arguments("COPY_ON_WRITE", "z-order"),
+      arguments("COPY_ON_WRITE", "z-order", "direct"),
-      arguments("MERGE_ON_READ", "hilbert"),
+      arguments("COPY_ON_WRITE", "z-order", "sample"),
-      arguments("MERGE_ON_READ", "z-order")
+      arguments("COPY_ON_WRITE", "hilbert", "direct"),
+      arguments("COPY_ON_WRITE", "hilbert", "sample"),
+
+      arguments("MERGE_ON_READ", "linear", null),
+      arguments("MERGE_ON_READ", "z-order", "direct"),
+      arguments("MERGE_ON_READ", "z-order", "sample"),
+      arguments("MERGE_ON_READ", "hilbert", "direct"),
+      arguments("MERGE_ON_READ", "hilbert", "sample")
     )
   }
 }
-