Thanks Carl. Could you give me edit rights to the wiki (ala...@microstrategy.com<mailto:ala...@microstrategy.com>) to update the sampling page with this info
From: Carl Steinbach [mailto:c...@cloudera.com] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 3:20 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Block Sampling Hi Anand, This feature was implemented in HIVE-2121 and appeared in Hive 0.8.0. Ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2121 Thanks. Carl On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ladda, Anand <lan...@microstrategy.com<mailto:lan...@microstrategy.com>> wrote: Has the block sampling feature been added to one of the latest (Hive 0.8 or Hive 0.9) releases. The wiki has the blurb below on block sampling Block Sampling It is a feature that is still on trunk and is not yet in any release version. block_sample: TABLESAMPLE (n PERCENT) This will allow Hive to pick up at least n% data size (notice it doesn't necessarily mean number of rows) as inputs. Only CombineHiveInputFormat is supported and some special compression formats are not handled. If we fail to sample it, the input of MapReduce job will be the whole table/partition. We do it in HDFS block level so that the sampling granularity is block size. For example, if block size is 256MB, even if n% of input size is only 100MB, you get 256MB of data. In the following example the input size 0.1% or more will be used for the query. SELECT * FROM source TABLESAMPLE(0.1 PERCENT) s; Sometimes you want to sample the same data with different blocks, you can change this seed number: set hive.sample.seednumber=<INTEGER>;
