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Eugene Koifman commented on HIVE-18709: --------------------------------------- with query based compactor this may be easy > Enable Compaction to work on more than one partition per job > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-18709 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18709 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Transactions > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Eugene Koifman > Assignee: Eugene Koifman > Priority: Major > > currently compaction launches 1 MR job per partition that needs to be > compacted. > The number of tasks is equal to the number of buckets in the table (or number > or writers in the 'widest' write). > The number of AMs in a cluster is usually limited to a small percentage of > the nodes. This limits how much compaction can be done in parallel. > Investigate what it would take for a single job to be able to handle multiple > partitions. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)