Hi, John. 1) The decimal data type in Kudu is parameterizable [1]. "The decimal type > is a parameterized type that takes precision and scale type attributes.". >
> For instace. It could be decimal(5, 2). I could not find something similar > in other datastores. So how should I be mapping this in the xml file?. > > <field name="someField" column="someColumn" type="decimal(5,2)"/> > or > <field name="someField" column="someColumn" type="decimal" precision="5" > scale="2"/> > or something else? What do you suggest? > Your second option looks good to me. 2) Within the table creation statement in Kudu some partition > configurations can be added, mainly the partition strategy (range/hash) and > its parameters [2]. So this configuration should be added in the mapping > file? > I would suggest you to copy HBase's approach as shown in [1]. You can create a <table> data with that configuration, and then reference it as in <class .... table="...">. Maybe anyone would think otherwise... Thanks for your question! [1] - https://github.com/apache/gora/blob/master/gora-hbase/src/test/conf/gora-hbase-mapping.xml#L26 Regards, Alfonso Nishikawa El vie., 7 jun. 2019 a las 17:43, John Mora (<jhnmora...@gmail.com>) escribió: > Hi. > > I have two questions about the Kudu mapping file, so hopefully you guys > can help me out. > > 1) The decimal data type in Kudu is parameterizable [1]. "The decimal type > is a parameterized type that takes precision and scale type attributes.". > > For instace. It could be decimal(5, 2). I could not find something similar > in other datastores. So how should I be mapping this in the xml file?. > > <field name="someField" column="someColumn" type="decimal(5,2)"/> > or > <field name="someField" column="someColumn" type="decimal" precision="5" > scale="2"/> > or something else? What do you suggest? > > 2) Within the table creation statement in Kudu some partition > configurations can be added, mainly the partition strategy (range/hash) and > its parameters [2]. So this configuration should be added in the mapping > file? > > > [1] https://kudu.apache.org/docs/schema_design.html#decimal > [2] > https://kudu.apache.org/docs/schema_design.html#hash-range-partitioning-example > > > Cheers, > John. >
