Namit Jain created HIVE-4006: -------------------------------- Summary: Add local sort operator Key: HIVE-4006 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4006 Project: Hive Issue Type: New Feature Components: Query Processor Reporter: Namit Jain Assignee: Namit Jain
We've seen in the past that sorting data on a specific column can greatly improve the compression of data. The problem is that sorting data is expensive and requires a reduce phase. One way around this is to add a local sort (either as an operator or between serialization and output). This could take chunks of rows and do an in memory sort of these. This would be much faster, but would need to be very memory efficient in order to get the maximum number of rows in a chunk (and hence the maximum benefit). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira