[jira] [Comment Edited] (HIVE-3917) Support fast operation for analyze command

["Ashutosh Chauhan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ashutosh Chauhan edited comment on HIVE-3917 at 1/29/13 5:09 PM:
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I think Shreepadma's initial question about possibility of gathering other stats (like # of rows, top-K, min, max etc.) needs more thought. E.g., some fileformats contain these stats with themselves (like ORC ( HIVE-3874 ), HFile of Hbase etc) and can return some of these stats just by reading metadata contained in the file headers. Though we need not to implement them right away but we should keep that in mind while designing this. That's why I didn't like {{noscan}} every much since in these cases you can collect stats very fast with partial scans (i.e., just by asking FileFormat which will read metadata from file, instead of full scan of file). 
                
      was (Author: ashutoshc):
    I think Shreepadma's initial question about possibility of gathering other stats (like # of rows, top-K, min, max etc.) needs more thought. E.g., some fileformats contain these stats with themselves (like ORC ( HIVE-3784 ), HFile of Hbase etc) and can return some of these stats just by reading metadata contained in the file headers. Though we need not to implement them right away but we should keep that in mind while designing this. That's why I didn't like {{noscan}} every much since in these cases you can collect stats very fast with partial scans (i.e., just by asking FileFormat which will read metadata from file, instead of full scan of file). 
                  
> Support fast operation for analyze command
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-3917
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3917
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Statistics
>    Affects Versions: 0.11.0
>            Reporter: Gang Tim Liu
>            Assignee: Gang Tim Liu
>         Attachments: HIVE-3917.patch.1
>
>
> hive supports analyze command to gather statistics from existing tables/partition https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/StatsDev#StatsDev-ExistingTables
> It collects:
> 1. Number of Rows
> 2. Number of files
> 3. Size in Bytes
> If table/partition is big, the operation would take time since it will open all files and scan all data.
> It would be nice to support fast operation to gather statistics which doesn't require to open all files:
> 1. Number of files
> 2. Size in Bytes
> Potential syntax is 
> ANALYZE TABLE tablename [PARTITION(partcol1[=val1], partcol2[=val2], ...)] COMPUTE STATISTICS [noscan];
> In the future, all statistics without scan can be retrieved via this optional parameter.

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