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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-1293:
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@John, if we lock the whole flat list of objects, it might be a huge list - to
lock a table 'T' in 'X' mode - we will be locking all the sub-partitions.
Given that, we have thousands of partitions for some tables, it will just be a
problem for debugging (even more, when we have 'show locks' etc.)
Do you mean "for the parent znode of T" rather than "all parent znodes of T",
and this is supposed to apply for case where T is actually a partition?
--> yes, will fix the wiki
> Concurreny Model for Hive
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>
> Key: HIVE-1293
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1293
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Query Processor
> Reporter: Namit Jain
> Assignee: Namit Jain
>
> Concurrency model for Hive:
> Currently, hive does not provide a good concurrency model. The only
> guanrantee provided in case of concurrent readers and writers is that
> reader will not see partial data from the old version (before the write) and
> partial data from the new version (after the write).
> This has come across as a big problem, specially for background processes
> performing maintenance operations.
> The following possible solutions come to mind.
> 1. Locks: Acquire read/write locks - they can be acquired at the beginning of
> the query or the write locks can be delayed till move
> task (when the directory is actually moved). Care needs to be taken for
> deadlocks.
> 2. Versioning: The writer can create a new version if the current version is
> being read. Note that, it is not equivalent to snapshots,
> the old version can only be accessed by the current readers, and will be
> deleted when all of them have finished.
> Comments.
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