[GLUTEN-3620][VL] Support Range operator for Velox Backend

backends-clickhouse/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/backendsapi/clickhouse/CHSparkPlanExecApi.scala

@@ -931,4 +931,15 @@ class CHSparkPlanExecApi extends SparkPlanExecApi with Logging {
       limitExpr: ExpressionTransformer,
       original: StringSplit): ExpressionTransformer =
     CHStringSplitTransformer(substraitExprName, Seq(srcExpr, regexExpr, limitExpr), original)
+
+  override def genColumnarRangeExec(
+      start: Long,
+      end: Long,
+      step: Long,
+      numSlices: Int,
+      numElements: BigInt,
+      outputAttributes: Seq[Attribute],
+      child: Seq[SparkPlan]): RangeExecBaseTransformer =
+    throw new GlutenNotSupportException("ColumnarRange is not supported in ch backend.")
+
 }

backends-velox/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/backendsapi/velox/VeloxBackend.scala

@@ -576,4 +576,7 @@ object VeloxBackendSettings extends BackendSettingsApi {
   override def supportColumnarArrowUdf(): Boolean = true
 
   override def needPreComputeRangeFrameBoundary(): Boolean = true
+
+  override def supportRangeExec(): Boolean = true
+
 }

backends-velox/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/backendsapi/velox/VeloxRuleApi.scala

@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ object VeloxRuleApi {
       RasOffload.from[LimitExec](OffloadOthers()),
       RasOffload.from[GenerateExec](OffloadOthers()),
       RasOffload.from[EvalPythonExec](OffloadOthers()),
-      RasOffload.from[SampleExec](OffloadOthers())
+      RasOffload.from[SampleExec](OffloadOthers()),
+      RasOffload.from[RangeExec](OffloadOthers())
     )
     offloads.foreach(
       offload =>

backends-velox/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/backendsapi/velox/VeloxSparkPlanExecApi.scala

@@ -837,4 +837,15 @@ class VeloxSparkPlanExecApi extends SparkPlanExecApi {
       attributeSeq: Seq[Attribute]): ExpressionTransformer = {
     VeloxHiveUDFTransformer.replaceWithExpressionTransformer(expr, attributeSeq)
   }
+
+  override def genColumnarRangeExec(
+      start: Long,
+      end: Long,
+      step: Long,
+      numSlices: Int,
+      numElements: BigInt,
+      outputAttributes: Seq[Attribute],
+      child: Seq[SparkPlan]): RangeExecBaseTransformer =
+    ColumnarRangeExec(start, end, step, numSlices, numElements, outputAttributes, child)
+
 }

backends-velox/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/ColumnarRangeExec.scala

@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.gluten.execution
+
+import org.apache.gluten.columnarbatch.ArrowBatches.ArrowJavaBatch
+import org.apache.gluten.extension.columnar.transition.Convention
+import org.apache.gluten.iterator.Iterators
+import org.apache.gluten.vectorized.ArrowWritableColumnVector
+
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.Attribute
+import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan
+import org.apache.spark.sql.vectorized.{ColumnarBatch, ColumnVector}
+
+/**
+ * ColumnarRangeExec is a concrete implementation of RangeExecBaseTransformer that executes the
+ * Range operation and supports columnar processing. It generates columnar batches for the specified
+ * range.
+ *
+ * @param start
+ *   Starting value of the range.
+ * @param end
+ *   Ending value of the range.
+ * @param step
+ *   Step size for the range.
+ * @param numSlices
+ *   Number of slices for partitioning the range.
+ * @param numElements
+ *   Total number of elements in the range.
+ * @param outputAttributes
+ *   Attributes defining the output schema of the operator.
+ * @param child
+ *   Child SparkPlan nodes for this operator, if any.
+ */
+case class ColumnarRangeExec(
+    start: Long,
+    end: Long,
+    step: Long,
+    numSlices: Int,
+    numElements: BigInt,
+    outputAttributes: Seq[Attribute],
+    child: Seq[SparkPlan]
+) extends RangeExecBaseTransformer(
+    start,
+    end,
+    step,
+    numSlices,
+    numElements,
+    outputAttributes,
+    child) {
+
+  override def batchType(): Convention.BatchType = {
+    ArrowJavaBatch
+  }
+
+  override protected def doExecuteColumnar(): RDD[ColumnarBatch] = {
+    if (start == end || (start < end ^ 0 < step)) {
+      sparkContext.emptyRDD[ColumnarBatch]
+    } else {
+      sparkContext
+        .parallelize(0 until numSlices, numSlices)
+        .mapPartitionsWithIndex {
+          (partitionIndex, _) =>
+            val batchSize = 1000
+            val safePartitionStart = (partitionIndex) * numElements / numSlices * step + start
+            val safePartitionEnd = (partitionIndex + 1) * numElements / numSlices * step + start
+
+            def getSafeMargin(value: BigInt): Long =
+              if (value.isValidLong) value.toLong
+              else if (value > 0) Long.MaxValue
+              else Long.MinValue
+
+            val partitionStart = getSafeMargin(safePartitionStart)
+            val partitionEnd = getSafeMargin(safePartitionEnd)
+
+            /**
+             * Generates the columnar batches for the specified range. Each batch contains a subset
+             * of the range values, managed using Arrow column vectors.
+             */
+            val iterator = new Iterator[ColumnarBatch] {
+              var current = safePartitionStart
+
+              override def hasNext: Boolean = {
+                if (step > 0) {
+                  current < safePartitionEnd
+                } else {
+                  current > safePartitionEnd
+                }
+              }
+
+              override def next(): ColumnarBatch = {
+                val numRows = math.min(
+                  ((safePartitionEnd - current) / step).toInt.max(1),
+                  batchSize
+                )
+
+                val vectors = ArrowWritableColumnVector.allocateColumns(numRows, schema)
+
+                for (i <- 0 until numRows) {
+                  val value = current + i * step
+                  vectors(0).putLong(i, getSafeMargin(value))
+                }
+                vectors.foreach(_.setValueCount(numRows))
+                current += numRows * step
+
+                val batch = new ColumnarBatch(vectors.asInstanceOf[Array[ColumnVector]], numRows)
+                batch
+              }
+            }
+            Iterators
+              .wrap(iterator)
+              .recyclePayload(
+                batch => {
+                  batch.close()
+                })
+              .create()
+
+        }
+    }
+  }
+
+  override protected def doExecute(): RDD[org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.InternalRow] = {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("doExecute is not supported for this operator")
+  }
+}

gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/backendsapi/BackendSettingsApi.scala

@@ -56,30 +56,41 @@ trait BackendSettingsApi {
       options: Map[String, String]): ValidationResult = ValidationResult.succeeded
 
   def supportNativeWrite(fields: Array[StructField]): Boolean = true
+
   def supportNativeMetadataColumns(): Boolean = false
+
   def supportNativeRowIndexColumn(): Boolean = false
 
   def supportExpandExec(): Boolean = false
+
   def supportSortExec(): Boolean = false
+
   def supportSortMergeJoinExec(): Boolean = true
+
   def supportWindowExec(windowFunctions: Seq[NamedExpression]): Boolean = {
     false
   }
+
   def supportWindowGroupLimitExec(rankLikeFunction: Expression): Boolean = {
     false
   }
+
   def supportColumnarShuffleExec(): Boolean = {
     GlutenConfig.get.enableColumnarShuffle
   }
+
   def enableJoinKeysRewrite(): Boolean = true
+
   def supportHashBuildJoinTypeOnLeft: JoinType => Boolean = {
     case _: InnerLike | RightOuter | FullOuter => true
     case _ => false
   }
+
   def supportHashBuildJoinTypeOnRight: JoinType => Boolean = {
     case _: InnerLike | LeftOuter | FullOuter | LeftSemi | LeftAnti | _: ExistenceJoin => true
     case _ => false
   }
+
   def supportStructType(): Boolean = false
 
   def structFieldToLowerCase(): Boolean = true
@@ -90,6 +101,7 @@ trait BackendSettingsApi {
   def recreateJoinExecOnFallback(): Boolean = false
 
   def excludeScanExecFromCollapsedStage(): Boolean = false
+
   def rescaleDecimalArithmetic: Boolean = false
 
   def allowDecimalArithmetic: Boolean = true
@@ -140,4 +152,7 @@ trait BackendSettingsApi {
   def supportColumnarArrowUdf(): Boolean = false
 
   def needPreComputeRangeFrameBoundary(): Boolean = false
+
+  def supportRangeExec(): Boolean = false
+
 }

gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/backendsapi/SparkPlanExecApi.scala

@@ -694,4 +694,14 @@ trait SparkPlanExecApi {
       limitExpr: ExpressionTransformer,
       original: StringSplit): ExpressionTransformer =
     GenericExpressionTransformer(substraitExprName, Seq(srcExpr, regexExpr, limitExpr), original)
+
+  def genColumnarRangeExec(
+      start: Long,
+      end: Long,
+      step: Long,
+      numSlices: Int,
+      numElements: BigInt,
+      outputAttributes: Seq[Attribute],
+      child: Seq[SparkPlan]): RangeExecBaseTransformer
+
 }

gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/RangeExecBaseTransformer.scala

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.gluten.execution
+
+import org.apache.gluten.backendsapi.BackendsApiManager
+import org.apache.gluten.extension.columnar.transition.Convention
+
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.Attribute
+import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.{LeafExecNode, RangeExec, SparkPlan}
+
+/**
+ * Base class for RangeExec transformation, can be implemented by the by supported backends.
+ * Currently velox is supported.
+ */
+abstract class RangeExecBaseTransformer(
+    start: Long,
+    end: Long,
+    step: Long,
+    numSlices: Int,
+    numElements: BigInt,
+    outputAttributes: Seq[Attribute],
+    child: Seq[SparkPlan])
+  extends LeafExecNode
+  with ValidatablePlan {
+
+  override def output: Seq[Attribute] = {
+    outputAttributes
+  }
+
+  override def rowType0(): Convention.RowType = Convention.RowType.None
+
+  override protected def doExecute()
+      : org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.InternalRow] = {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException(s"This operator doesn't support doExecute().")
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Companion object for RangeExecBaseTransformer, provides factory methods to create instance from
+ * existing RangeExec plan.
+ */
+object RangeExecBaseTransformer {
+  def from(rangeExec: RangeExec): RangeExecBaseTransformer = {
+    BackendsApiManager.getSparkPlanExecApiInstance
+      .genColumnarRangeExec(
+        rangeExec.start,
+        rangeExec.end,
+        rangeExec.step,
+        rangeExec.numSlices,
+        rangeExec.numElements,
+        rangeExec.output,
+        rangeExec.children
+      )
+  }
+}

gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/extension/columnar/offload/OffloadSingleNodeRules.scala

@@ -324,6 +324,17 @@ object OffloadOthers {
               child,
               plan.evalType)
           }
+        case plan: RangeExec =>
+          logDebug(s"Columnar Processing for ${plan.getClass} is currently supported.")
+          BackendsApiManager.getSparkPlanExecApiInstance.genColumnarRangeExec(
+            plan.start,
+            plan.end,
+            plan.step,
+            plan.numSlices,
+            plan.numElements,
+            plan.output,
+            plan.children
+          )
         case plan: SampleExec =>
           logDebug(s"Columnar Processing for ${plan.getClass} is currently supported.")
           val child = plan.child

gluten-substrait/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/extension/columnar/validator/Validators.scala

@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ object Validators {
         fail(p)
       case p: CartesianProductExec if !settings.supportCartesianProductExec() => fail(p)
       case p: TakeOrderedAndProjectExec if !settings.supportColumnarShuffleExec() => fail(p)
+      case p: RangeExec if !settings.supportRangeExec() => fail(p)
       case _ => pass()
     }
   }

gluten-ut/spark32/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/utils/velox/VeloxTestSettings.scala

@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ class VeloxTestSettings extends BackendTestSettings {
     )
     // Double precision loss: https://github.com/facebookincubator/velox/pull/6051#issuecomment-1731028215.
     .exclude("SPARK-22271: mean overflows and returns null for some decimal variables")
+    // Rewrite this test since it checks the physical operator which is changed in Gluten
+    .exclude("SPARK-27439: Explain result should match collected result after view change")
 
   enableSuite[GlutenDataFrameNaFunctionsSuite]
     .exclude(

gluten-ut/spark33/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/utils/velox/VeloxTestSettings.scala

@@ -1036,6 +1036,8 @@ class VeloxTestSettings extends BackendTestSettings {
     // The describe issue is just fixed by https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/40914.
     // We can enable the below test for spark 3.4 and higher versions.
     .excludeGlutenTest("describe")
+    // Rewrite this test since it checks the physical operator which is changed in Gluten
+    .exclude("SPARK-27439: Explain result should match collected result after view change")
   enableSuite[GlutenDataFrameTimeWindowingSuite]
   enableSuite[GlutenDataFrameTungstenSuite]
   enableSuite[GlutenDataFrameWindowFunctionsSuite]
@@ -1177,6 +1179,7 @@ class VeloxTestSettings extends BackendTestSettings {
   enableSuite[GlutenImplicitsTest]
   enableSuite[GlutenCollapseProjectExecTransformerSuite]
   enableSuite[GlutenSparkSessionExtensionSuite]
+  enableSuite[GlutenSQLRangeExecSuite]
 
   override def getSQLQueryTestSettings: SQLQueryTestSettings = VeloxSQLQueryTestSettings
 }