Thanks, Stephen, I do not quite understand what you mean by Stream, specifically "Stream the 400M message records through the in-memory maps".Can you please elaborate. Also, can you use MAPJOIN on left outer join? Peter
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 21:44:37 -0700 Subject: Re: Hive QL - NOT IN, NOT EXIST From: java...@gmail.com To: user@hive.apache.org @Peter Does the query plan demonstrate that the 3Meg row table is being map-joined and the 400M table streamed through? That is what you want: but you might either need to fiddle with hints to get it to happen Details: Read uuids s of feed into in-memory map on all nodes (mapjoin) Stream the 400M message records through the in-memory maps, copying id's from the "all feed uuids" map to a "matched feed uuid's map for entries that have matches in the messages Note: this way the 400M rows are only read once on the cluster. You can see whether hive can manage this or if you write a custom m/r job to do it. 2013/5/5 Peter Chu <pete....@outlook.com> It works but it takes a very long time because the subqueries in NOT IN contains 400 million rows (the message table in the example) and the feed table contains 3 million rows. SELECT uuid from feed f WHERE f.uuid NOT IN (SELECT uuid FROM message); > Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 20:25:15 -0700 > From: michaelma...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: Hive QL - NOT IN, NOT EXIST > To: user@hive.apache.org > > > --- On Sun, 5/5/13, Peter Chu <pete....@outlook.com> wrote: > > > I am wondering if there is any way to do this without resorting to > > using left outer join and finding nulls. > > I have found this to be an acceptable substitute. Is it not working for you? >