On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> > irrespective of naming, know that deep directory trees are performance > killers when listing files on s3 and setting up jobs. You might actually be > better off having them in the same directory and using a pattern like > 2016-03-11-* > as the pattten to find files. > Thanks Bharat and Steve - I've generally followed the partitioned table format over the flat structure since this aides WHERE clause filtering (PredicatePushDown?). Wrt performance that helps the write once, query many times kind of workloads. Changing this in our production application that dumps these is cumbersome. Is there a configuration that would override this restriction for Spark? Does it make sense to have one?
