Just finishing up testing with Hive 11 and ORC. Thank you to Owen and all those who have put hard work into this. Just ORC files, when compared to RC files in Hive 9, 10, and 11 saw a huge increase in performance, it was amazing. That said, now we gotta reprocess.
We have a large table with lots of partitions. I'd love to be able to reprocess into a new table, like table_orc, and then at the end of it all, just drop the original table. That said, I see it being hard to do from a space perspective. and I will have to do partition at a time. But then theirs production issues, if I update a partition, insert overwrite int the ORC table, then I have delete the original and production users will be missing data.... decisions decisions. So any ideas? Can a table have some partitions in one file type and other partitions in another? That sounds scary. Anywho, a good problem to have... that performance will be worth it.
