Re: largest table last in joins

2014-05-05 Thread Db-Blog
Hi, If we have one big table joining with a small table and MAPJOIN hint is specified on the Smaller table, still the ordering will be required? We can always forcefully set the auto convert join property to false and enable mapjoin hints. Please let me know if I am off base on this topic.

Re: largest table last in joins

2014-05-05 Thread Alan Gates
Join ordering is not yet part of the Hive optimizer. There is integration work being done with the Optiq framework that will address this, but it is not complete yet. Hopefully at least an initial integration will be available in the next Hive release. Alan. On May 2, 2014, at 5:36 AM, Aleks

largest table last in joins

2014-05-02 Thread Aleksei Udatšnõi
Hello, There is this old recommendation for optimizing Hive join to use the largest table last in the join. http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/hive/language_manual/joins.html The same recommendation appears in Programming Hive book. Is this recommendation still valid or newer version of Hive take