Hi Santhosh As long as the smaller table size is in the range of a few MBs. It is a good candidate for map join.
If the smaller table size is still more then you can take a look at bucketed map joins. Regards Bejoy KS Sent from remote device, Please excuse typos -----Original Message----- From: Santosh Achhra <santoshach...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 00:11:37 To: <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Map Reduce Local Task Thank you Dean, One of our table is very small, it has only 16,000 rows and other big table has 45 million plus records. Wont doing a loacl task help in this case ? Good wishes,always ! Santosh On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Dean Wampler < dean.wamp...@thinkbiganalytics.com> wrote: > more aggressive about trying to convert a join to a local task, where it > bypasses the job tracker. When you're experimenting with queries on a small > data set, it can make things much faster, but won't be useful for large > data sets where you need the cluster. >