UNDF: UNDF-2026-000000383

druid-0001: ScanQuery columns List.contains in orderBy validation loop

Severity

MEDIUM

Location

processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/scan/ScanQuery.java:178-179 — constructor validation loop

Pattern

SLOW: List<String> columns with .contains(orderByColumn.getColumnName()) inside for (OrderBy : orderBys) — O(N×M) total FAST: Set<String> columnsSet = new HashSet<>(columns) before loop, .contains() — O(N) total

Context

In the ScanQuery constructor, after receiving the columns list and orderBys list, there is a validation loop:

for (final OrderBy orderByColumn : this.orderBys) {
    if (!this.columns.contains(orderByColumn.getColumnName())) {

this.columns is declared as List<String> (line 114). List.contains() is O(M) where M = number of selected columns. For N order-by columns, total complexity is O(N×M).

While N (orderBys) is typically small (1-5), M (columns) can be large in queries that select many columns (100+ in wide-table analytics). Every scan query construction pays this cost. ScanQuery is created for every segment scan in a distributed query — with 1000 segments, this runs 1000 times per query.

Speedup

100× at M=100 selected columns (wide-table analytical queries)

Patch

--- a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/scan/ScanQuery.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/scan/ScanQuery.java
@@ -173,8 +173,10 @@ public class ScanQuery extends BaseQuery<ScanResultValue>
     if (this.columns != null && this.columns.size() > 0) {
       // Validate orderBy. (Cannot validate when signature is empty, since that means "discover at runtime".)

+      final Set<String> columnsSet = new HashSet<>(this.columns);
       for (final OrderBy orderByColumn : this.orderBys) {
-        if (!this.columns.contains(orderByColumn.getColumnName())) {
+        if (!columnsSet.contains(orderByColumn.getColumnName())) {
           // Error message depends on how the user originally specified ordering.

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