11.2.3 MySQL HeatWave AutoML Limitations

The following limitations apply to MySQL HeatWave AutoML. For MySQL HeatWave limitations, see: Section 11.2.1, “MySQL HeatWave Limitations”.

Text Handling Limitations

• MySQL HeatWave AutoML only supports datasets in the English language.

• MySQL HeatWave AutoML does not support text columns with NULL values.

• MySQL HeatWave AutoML does not support a text target column.

• MySQL HeatWave AutoML does not support recommendation tasks with a text column.

• For the forecasting task, endogenous_variables cannot be text.

Account Name Limitations

• The ML_TRAIN routine does not support MySQL user names that contain a period. For example, a user named 'joe.smith'@'%' cannot run the ML_TRAIN routine. The model catalog schema created by the ML_TRAIN procedure incorporates the user name in the schema name (e.g., ML_SCHEMA_joesmith), and a period is not a permitted schema name character.

Memory Limitations

• The table used to train a model cannot exceed 10 GB, 100 million rows, or 1017 columns.

• As of MySQL 9.0.0, the shape you set for the MySQL HeatWave cluster in the DB system defines the total memory available to train a model and for all loaded models. For imported models, we recommend individual models have a size of 4GB or less. ML_TRAIN will fail to run and raises an error if it attempts to train a model larger than this. Before MySQL 9.0.0, the limit was 900 MB. To query all loaded models and relevant model sizes, see ML_MODEL_ACTIVE

• MySQL HeatWave on AWS only supports MySQL HeatWave AutoML with the MySQL HeatWave.256GB node shape. To use MySQL HeatWave machine learning functionality, select that shape when creating a MySQL HeatWave Cluster.

Routine and Query Limitations

• ML_EXPLAIN_TABLE and ML_PREDICT_TABLE are compute intensive processes, with ML_EXPLAIN_TABLE being the most compute intensive. Limiting operations to batches of 10 to 100 rows by splitting large tables into smaller tables is recommended. Use batch processing with the batch_size option. See the following to learn more:

  • ML_PREDICT_TABLE

  • ML_EXPLAIN_TABLE

  • Track Progress for MySQL HeatWave AutoML Routines

• ML_EXPLAIN, ML_EXPLAIN_ROW, and ML_EXPLAIN_TABLE routines limit explanations to the 100 most relevant features.

• The ML_PREDICT_TABLE ml_results column contains the prediction results and the data. This combination must be less than 65,532 characters.

• Concurrent MySQL HeatWave analytics and MySQL HeatWave AutoML queries are not supported. A MySQL HeatWave AutoML query must wait for MySQL HeatWave analytics queries to finish, and vice versa. MySQL HeatWave analytics queries are given priority over MySQL HeatWave AutoML queries.