Bug report #18342

Loading FileGDB's are really really slow

Added by Casper Børgesen over 6 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:High
Assignee:Even Rouault
Category:Data Provider/OGR
Affected QGIS version:3.1(master) Regression?:Yes
Operating System:windows 10 x64 Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:26232

Description

I have installed QGIS from OSGeo4W and I'm trying to load an empty ESRI File Geodatabase. The GDB has around 20 feature types each with a many attributes.

To load the GDB I drag the GDB folder into QGIS and I measured the time from dropping the folder until I got the dialog box asking me to select which feature types to load as layers.

I got the following timings:

  • QGIS 3.1 (871132eae6): 6 minutes
  • QGIS 3.0: 4½ minute
  • QGIS 2.18.17: 7 seconds

I have installed the following FileGDB drivers from OSGeo4W:

  • gdal-dev-filegdb (2.3.0-41580)
  • gdal-filegdb (2.2.3-4)

I don't know the reason for this huge increase in time consumption when using file geodatabases, but could it be because QGIS uses the Open FileGDB driver instead of the proprietary ESRI driver?

testdata.gdb.zip - Empty GDB with 40 feature types and lots of attributes (79.4 KB) Casper Børgesen, 2018-03-06 10:47 AM

testdata_2.gdb.zip (110 KB) Casper Børgesen, 2018-03-07 04:00 PM

Associated revisions

Revision 55aa7a86
Added by Even Rouault over 6 years ago

[OGR provider] Improve performance of subLayers(), particularly on FileGDB with the proprietary driver (fixes #18342)

Revision 7f97a2f3
Added by Even Rouault over 6 years ago

Merge pull request #7146 from rouault/fix_18342

[OGR provider] Improve performance of subLayers(), particularly on FileGDB with the proprietary driver (fixes #18342)

History

#1 Updated by Jérôme Guélat over 6 years ago

Confirmed here with QGIS 3.0 and 2.18.17... The opening time seems to be similar with the ESRI FileGDB driver.

Interestingly the problem doesn't happen if you use the browser to open the File Geodatabase in QGIS 3.0.

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback
  • Priority changed from Normal to High
  • Regression? changed from No to Yes

Can you attach sample data? thanks!

#3 Updated by Casper Børgesen over 6 years ago

I have created a new dummy data set with 40 feature types inside a schema and each feature type has 20 attributes.

Using this data set I get the following timings:

  • QGIS 3.1 (871132eae6): 30 seconds
  • QGIS 3.0: 25 seconds
  • QGIS 2.18.17: 1 second

#4 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

I just tried your dataset in my Win 10 testing VM and doing what you say (" I measured the time from dropping the folder until I got the dialog box asking me to select which feature types to load as layers") and is almost instantaneous. Anyway your layers seems empty, is that right?

#5 Updated by Casper Børgesen over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Open

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

I just tried your dataset in my Win 10 testing VM and doing what you say (" I measured the time from dropping the folder until I got the dialog box asking me to select which feature types to load as layers") and is almost instantaneous. Anyway your layers seems empty, is that right?

Yes, there are no features in the data set.

#6 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

Yes, there are no features in the data set.

so... have you tried on another system or doing a clean install?

#7 Updated by Casper Børgesen over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Open

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

Yes, there are no features in the data set.

so... have you tried on another system or doing a clean install?

I have just tried on two more powerful machines and they both take around 13 seconds in QGIS 3, while still only use about 1 second in QGIS 2.18.17.

#8 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

I have just tried on two more powerful machines and they both take around 13 seconds in QGIS 3, while still only use about 1 second in QGIS 2.18.17.

so is not instantaneous as here, but also is not minutes as in the original report. What about after adding the layers, any difference (in performance)?

#9 Updated by Casper Børgesen over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Open

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

I have just tried on two more powerful machines and they both take around 13 seconds in QGIS 3, while still only use about 1 second in QGIS 2.18.17.

so is not instantaneous as here, but also is not minutes as in the original report. What about after adding the layers, any difference (in performance)?

I haven't added the layers since they doesn't contain anything. I was trying to keep the issue simple, since just opening a data set doesn't include panning or zooming or other user interactions to make performance measurements more complex.

But I guess something has happened from 2.18 to 3.x that significantly increases time consumption when trying to load a GDB data set.

Do you use your own compiled QGIS or the one from OSGeo?

#10 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

But I guess something has happened from 2.18 to 3.x that significantly increases time consumption when trying to load a GDB data set.

I can't see any difference here (between 2.18 and 3, with your dataset)

Do you use your own compiled QGIS or the one from OSGeo?

osgeo4w on a clean testing Win10 VM.

#11 Updated by Jérôme Guélat over 6 years ago

I'm having the same problem using a clean install (from OSGeo4W) on Windows 7.

#12 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago

Jérôme Guélat wrote:

I'm having the same problem using a clean install (from OSGeo4W) on Windows 7.

are your datasources in the local disk? network share? else?

#13 Updated by Casper Børgesen over 6 years ago

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

Jérôme Guélat wrote:

I'm having the same problem using a clean install (from OSGeo4W) on Windows 7.

are your datasources in the local disk? network share? else?

Mine are located on a local SSD.

#14 Updated by Jérôme Guélat over 6 years ago

Mine are located on a network drive.

#15 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago

Jérôme Guélat wrote:

Mine are located on a network drive.

and if you copy them on a local drive?

#16 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago

I have just tried on two more powerful machines and they both take around 13 seconds in QGIS 3, while still only use about 1 second in QGIS 2.18.17.

should we change the description (that reports several minutes, not seconds)?

#17 Updated by Casper Børgesen over 6 years ago

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

I have just tried on two more powerful machines and they both take around 13 seconds in QGIS 3, while still only use about 1 second in QGIS 2.18.17.

should we change the description (that reports several minutes, not seconds)?

I am working on creating a data set matching the one I used in my initial timings. I will report back with my results.

#18 Updated by Jérôme Guélat over 6 years ago

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

Jérôme Guélat wrote:

Mine are located on a network drive.

and if you copy them on a local drive?

Same problem with the dataset on a local SSD.

#19 Updated by Casper Børgesen over 6 years ago

I have created a data set (testdata_2) that matches my initial timings more accurately. The data set has no features but a lot of feature types with corresponding attributes and some of them has domain values.

Laptop timings (corresponding to the original):
  • QGIS 3.1: 03:53
  • QGIS 3.0: 04:01
  • QGIS 2.18.17: 00:06
Workstation (corresponding to the latter timings):
  • QGIS 3.1: 01:50
  • QGIS 3.0: 01:37
  • QGIS 2.18.17: 00:03

#20 Updated by Even Rouault over 6 years ago

  • Category changed from Data Provider to Data Provider/OGR
  • Assignee set to Even Rouault

#21 Updated by Even Rouault over 6 years ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
  • Status changed from Open to Closed

#22 Updated by Casper Børgesen over 6 years ago

Even Rouault wrote:

Applied in changeset qgis|55aa7a86be56ce098a6c0596d4e4bb191c3a52f5.

Hi Even, Thanks a lot.

I can confirm that the change really improves the loading performance! It is still 2-3 seconds slower than with QGIS 2.18 but that is negligible compared to the previous timings.

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