Are you using MR and Tez? You could try optimized hash table in case of Tez, although it’s supposed to improve memory, not necessarily perf.
Can you also share characteristics of the query and data? It is surprising to see so much time for HashMap.get. From: "r7raul1...@163.com<mailto:r7raul1...@163.com>" <r7raul1...@163.com<mailto:r7raul1...@163.com>> Reply-To: user <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 18:03 To: user <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: sql mapjoin very slow When I enable mapjoin ,I see Mapjoin task run very slow. My envrioment is hadoop 2.3.0 hive 1.1.0. My attach is one map hive log and this map's xprof log. In map xprof log ,I see Compiled + native Method 92.3% 643527 + 0 java.util.HashMap.get 2.8% 19856 + 0 java.util.HashMap.put 1.2% 8623 + 0 org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.persistence.HashMapWrapper$GetAdaptor.setFromRow 0.1% 953 + 0 org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExprNodeColumnEvaluator._evaluate 0.1% 576 + 0 org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.ObjectInspectorUtils.copyToStandardObject ________________________________ r7raul1...@163.com<mailto:r7raul1...@163.com>