Hi Yu and Everyone, Just a little bit supplement, Hive definitely involves in the step of Create Intermediate Flat Hive Table and Build Dimension Dictionary. The question is that does Hive involve in the following steps of building cuboids?
Best regards, Zhong On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:35 PM, yu feng <[email protected]> wrote: > Firstly, kylin do not distinguish which kind table in hive, if only you > can query it in hive, so the table can be normal table, external table, > view or table with some serdes. > then I think it is hard to build cube backward along the time in kylin. > maybe someone has some good ideas at this point. > > 2016-01-18 11:04 GMT+08:00 zhong zhang <[email protected]>: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm wondering can I build the Kylin cube backward along the time. More > > specifically, can I build the cube from the current time to six months > ago > > and then from six months ago to 12 months ago and go on? In this way, I > can > > have the latest six months' cube result first. > > > > It's well known that the input of Kylin cube is hive table. Does it make > > any difference > > between using internal hive table and external hive table when building > the > > cube? > > > > Best regards, > > Zhong > > >
