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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-6500: -------------------------------------- I made some changes in the docs, please review: * [StatsDev -- Newly Created Tables | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/StatsDev#StatsDev-NewlyCreatedTables] * [Configuration Properties -- hive.stats.dbclass | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Configuration+Properties#ConfigurationProperties-hive.stats.dbclass] > Stats collection via filesystem > ------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-6500 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6500 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Statistics > Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan > Assignee: Ashutosh Chauhan > Labels: TODOC13, TODOC14 > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-6500.2.patch, HIVE-6500.3.patch, HIVE-6500.patch > > > Recently, support for stats gathering via counter was [added | > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4632] Although, its useful it has > following issues: > * [Length of counter group name is limited | > https://github.com/apache/hadoop-common/blob/branch-2.3/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/MRJobConfig.java?source=c#L340] > * [Length of counter name is limited | > https://github.com/apache/hadoop-common/blob/branch-2.3/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/MRJobConfig.java?source=c#L337] > * [Number of distinct counter groups are limited | > https://github.com/apache/hadoop-common/blob/branch-2.3/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/MRJobConfig.java?source=c#L343] > * [Number of distinct counters are limited | > https://github.com/apache/hadoop-common/blob/branch-2.3/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/MRJobConfig.java?source=c#L334] > Although, these limits are configurable, but setting them to higher value > implies increased memory load on AM and job history server. > Now, whether these limits makes sense or not is [debatable | > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-5680] it is desirable that > Hive doesn't make use of counters features of framework so that it we can > evolve this feature without relying on support from framework. Filesystem > based counter collection is a step in that direction. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)