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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-439:
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The tests seem to work for me - I will upload the patch again - but I haven't
changed anything
> merge small files after a map-only job
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> Key: HIVE-439
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-439
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Query Processor
> Affects Versions: 0.3.0, 0.3.1
> Reporter: Namit Jain
> Assignee: Namit Jain
> Fix For: 0.4.0
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> Attachments: hive.439.1.patch, hive.439.2.patch, hive.439.3.patch,
> hive.439.4.patch
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> There are cases when the input to a Hive job are thousands of small files. In
> this case, there is a mapper for each file. Most of the overhead for spawning
> all these mappers can be avoided if these small files are combined into fewer
> larger files.
> The problem can also be addressed by having a mapper span multiple blocks as
> in:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-74
> Bit, it also makes sense in HIVE to merge files whenever possible.
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