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Jeff Hammerbacher commented on HIVE-74:
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What is the status of this patch?
> Hive can use CombineFileInputFormat for when the input are many small files
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> Key: HIVE-74
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-74
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Query Processor
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: Namit Jain
> Fix For: 0.4.0
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> Attachments: hiveCombineSplit.patch, hiveCombineSplit.patch,
> hiveCombineSplit2.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 Hive used CombineFileInputFormat
> introduced via HADOOP-4565
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