Hi,
I have the usual SALES fact table with 5 million rows partitioned by yean and month I created 5 bitmap indexes all being the foreign keys from DIMENSION tables as below: 0: jdbc:hive2://rhes564:10010/default> show index on sales; +-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+--- ---------------------------------------+-----------------------+----------+- -+ | idx_name | tab_name | col_names | idx_tab_name | idx_type | comment | +-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+--- ---------------------------------------+-----------------------+----------+- -+ | sales_cust_bix | sales | cust_id | oraclehadoop__sales_sales_cust_bix__ | bitmap | | | sales_channel_bix | sales | channel_id | oraclehadoop__sales_sales_channel_bix__ | bitmap | | | sales_prod_bix | sales | prod_id | oraclehadoop__sales_sales_prod_bix__ | bitmap | | | sales_promo_bix | sales | promo_id | oraclehadoop__sales_sales_promo_bix__ | bitmap | | | sales_time_bix | sales | time_id | oraclehadoop__sales_sales_time_bix__ | bitmap | | +-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+--- ---------------------------------------+-----------------------+----------+- -+ Now I would like to see the usage of bitmap index when I do something simple as below 0: jdbc:hive2://rhes564:10010/default> explain dependency select prod_id, count(prod_id) 0: jdbc:hive2://rhes564:10010/default> from sales 0: jdbc:hive2://rhes564:10010/default> group by prod_id; +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------+--+ | {"input_partitions":[{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1998/month=1" },{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1998/month=10"},{"partitionName" :"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1998/month=11"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sal es@year=1998/month=12"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1998/month =2"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1998/month=3"},{"partitionNam e":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1998/month=4"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sa les@year=1998/month=5"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1998/month =6"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1998/month=7"},{"partitionNam e":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1998/month=8"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sa les@year=1998/month=9"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1999/month =1"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1999/month=10"},{"partitionNa me":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1999/month=11"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@ sales@year=1999/month=12"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1999/mo nth=2"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1999/month=3"},{"partition Name":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1999/month=4"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop @sales@year=1999/month=5"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1999/mo nth=6"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1999/month=7"},{"partition Name":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=1999/month=8"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop @sales@year=1999/month=9"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2000/mo nth=1"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2000/month=10"},{"partitio nName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2000/month=11"},{"partitionName":"oraclehado op@sales@year=2000/month=12"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2000 /month=2"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2000/month=3"},{"partit ionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2000/month=4"},{"partitionName":"oraclehad oop@sales@year=2000/month=5"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2000 /month=6"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2000/month=7"},{"partit ionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2000/month=8"},{"partitionName":"oraclehad oop@sales@year=2000/month=9"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2001 /month=1"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2001/month=10"},{"parti tionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2001/month=11"},{"partitionName":"oracleh adoop@sales@year=2001/month=12"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2 001/month=2"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2001/month=3"},{"par titionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2001/month=4"},{"partitionName":"oracle hadoop@sales@year=2001/month=5"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2 001/month=6"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2001/month=7"},{"par titionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2001/month=8"},{"partitionName":"oracle hadoop@sales@year=2001/month=9"},{"partitionName":"oraclehadoop@sales@year=2 002/month=1"}],"input_tables":[{"tablename":"oraclehadoop@sales","tabletype" :"MANAGED_TABLE"}]} | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- All I see is reference to partitions which is fine. Ideally I would like to know if the bitmap index sales_prod_bix is used at all? Appreciate any feedback Thanks Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABU rV8Pw> https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUr V8Pw Sybase ASE 15 Gold Medal Award 2008 A Winning Strategy: Running the most Critical Financial Data on ASE 15 <http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908 .pdf> http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908. pdf Author of the books "A Practitioner's Guide to Upgrading to Sybase ASE 15", ISBN 978-0-9563693-0-7. co-author "Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices", ISBN 978-0-9759693-0-4 Publications due shortly: Complex Event Processing in Heterogeneous Environments, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-3-8 Oracle and Sybase, Concepts and Contrasts, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-1-4, volume one out shortly <http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com NOTE: The information in this email is proprietary and confidential. 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