What is the create table statement? You may want to insert everything into the orc table (sorted on x and/or y) and then apply the where statement in your queries on the orc table.
> On 02 Nov 2015, at 13:36, Kashif Hussain <kash.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I am trying to insert data into orc table from a text table.The query is as > follows : > > insert into table test_orc(x,y) select * from test where x=4 and y=5 ; > > The MR is taking a lot of time and all but one reducer got completed > quickly.But the last reducer is taking a lot of time. > The total data size is 2.9 TB. I am not able to understand why only one > reducer is taking so much of time ? Is it because whole map output went to a > single reducer ? > > > Regards, > Kashif >