Indexing in Hive works through map/reduce. There are no active components in Hive (such as the region servers in Hbase), so the way the index is basically used is by running the map/reduce job on the table that holds the index data to get all the relevant offsets into the main table and then using those offsets to figure out which blocks to read from the main table. So you will not see map/reduce go away even when you are running queries on tables with indexes on them.
Ashish On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Hezhiqiang (Ransom) < ransom.hezhiqi...@huawei.com> wrote: > I think if I create index for one table**** > > When I excute “select c1,c2 from tab where index_col=1”, should not start > mapreduce**** > > But it was start .**** > > So how to use a index without mapreduce?**** > > Compact index and bitmap index all was tested , all need mapreduce . **** >
