Only the first step actually, Kylin runs "hive -e" command to create an intermediate table; The following steps are running MR over the files under that table.
2016-01-20 4:18 GMT+08:00 zhong zhang <[email protected]>: > 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 > > > > > > -- Best regards, Shaofeng Shi
