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Zheng Shao commented on HIVE-105:
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Agree on Ashish's point. I will work on Part A first, and Part B will be done 
after another transaction (from Namit and Ashish) to add the query hint 
capability is committed.

> estimate number of required reducers and other map-reduce parameters 
> automatically
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>
>                 Key: HIVE-105
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-105
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
>            Assignee: Zheng Shao
>
> currently users have to specify number of reducers. In a multi-user 
> environment - we generally ask users to be prudent in selecting number of 
> reducers (since they are long running and block other users). Also - large 
> number of reducers produce large number of output files - which puts pressure 
> on namenode resources.
> there are other map-reduce parameters - for example the min split size and 
> the proposed use of combinefileinputformat that are also fairly tricky for 
> the user to determine (since they depend on map side selectivity and cluster 
> size). This will become totally critical when there is integration with BI 
> tools since there will be no opportunity to optimize job settings and there 
> will be a wide variety of jobs.
> This jira calls for automating the selection of such parameters - possibly by 
> a best effort at estimating map side selectivity/output size using sampling 
> and determining such parameters from there.

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