I think there is a developer mailing list ... that is probably the best place for this question.
Also, I think there is a cost-based query optimizer in the works somewhere. -Ajo On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Anja Gruenheid <anja.gruenh...@gatech.edu>wrote: > Hi! > > I'm a graduate student from Georgia Tech and I'm working with Hive for a > research project. I am interested in query optimization and the Hive > MetaStore in that context. Working through the documentation and code, I > noticed that the implementation right now is using a rule-based optimization > system. Therefore, I was wondering whether cost-based query optimization > will be a future task in the development of Hive and if it would be possible > for me to cooperate with the developers of Hive to advance the project in > general. > > Best regards, > Anja Gruenheid >
