Doing versioning would work for this scenario. It essentially achieves the
same thing.


On 9/11/09 2:39 AM, "Ashish Thusoo" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another option is to deal with this using versioning. Some ideas on this are
> at
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-718
> 
> Ashish
> ________________________________________
> From: Eva Tse [[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Files does not exist error: concurrency control on hive
> queries...
> 
> Zookeeper sounds like a decent alternative, though it would add a new
> dependency for deployment.
> Maybe we could open a jira for it first to track this issue?
> Thanks,
> Eva.
> 
> 
> On 9/9/09 2:49 PM, "Prasad Chakka" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, metastore db is logical place to do locking but there have to be
> periodic cleanups (when clients die without releasing locks) etc which is
> hacky so less preferrable. Another option is to point a ZooKeeper cluster to
> Hive and ask Hive to use it for locking. So those who are not concerned about
> concurrency control, don’t have to install ZooKeeper but other can. ZooKeeper
> provides leases so there won’t be any problem of hanging locks and it will be
> easier for admins to clean it up.
> 
> I suppose it depends on whoever wants to take this task up :)
> 
> Prasad
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Eva Tse <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:32:20 -0700
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Files does not exist error: concurrency control on hive
> queries...
> 
> 
> Regardless of whether the user uses a HiveServer, looks like the logical place
> to do locking or concurrency control would be at the metastore DB. This is
> actually one big advantage of Hive. The r/w lock or access control can be
> achieved by a DB row with lock count for each partition, etc. This might be
> over-simplfying it, but the metastore DB seems to be the ideal candidate.
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> On 9/9/09 12:52 PM, "Prasad Chakka" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I thought your script runs the two job sequentially. If these two queries are
> run in parallel then the error can be expected since Hive doesn’t try to
> acquire locks before reading or writing. I don’t think there are any plans to
> support this kind of locking (this can only be done if all queries go through
> HiveServer otherwise lot of orphaned locks will bring the system to halt). I
> think you should do some kind of locking (possibly with HDFS files) to prevent
> queries being executed simultaneously.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Prasad
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Eva Tse <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:36:11 -0700
> To: <[email protected]>, Dhruba Borthakur <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Files does not exist error: concurrency control on hive
> queries...
> 
> Hi Prasad,
> 
> Are you implying the expected behavior for these queries should be run
> sequentially by hive because one is r/w and one is read-only ?
> 
> For clarifications, these two queries are running concurrently in two separate
> jobs as below.
> 
> Query 1 is run within a job that does the following essentially:
> For every hour:
>    - parse log files to generate completed sessions information
>    - load completed sessions into 48 partitions (for the prior 48 hours)
>    - merge small files using ‘insert overwrite ... select from’ on every other
> 8 partitions. Essentially, we would issue 6 separate queries to merge 6
> partitions at the same time, not sequentially. (We do this to minimize time
> required.) And this is query 1.
> 
> Query 2 is run within another job that does select on 24 partitions (aka daily
> summary) for the previous day. This job just run this query in a loop for
> testing purposes.
> 
> The error comes from query 2 saying ‘file not found’ for a file that we are
> merging in query 1 at that point in time.
> 
> We need to rerun the test to be able to catch the failure at that time to see
> if the file was there at that instance. In the previous run, the merge query
> succeeded, so I would imagine the file not there after the merge. And, am not
> sure if that file was still there at that instance when the failure happens.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> Eva.
> 
> On 9/9/09 10:29 AM, "Prasad Chakka" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The first query will not return unless it copied the files to the dest
> directory and this operation is atomic (FileSystem.rename() guarantees that).
> Since second query is not executed until the first query returns, this problem
> may be due to a bug in HDFS (highly unlikely) or an issue with HDFS
> configuration or related to EC3.
> 
> The second query knows the file name
> ‘sessionsFacts_P20090909T021823L20090908T09-r-00006’ so Hive client does was
> able to successfully call getFileStatus() on it but the mapper (of second
> query) is not able to do the same thing. So either this file has been deleted
> after the Hive client accessed it but before the mapper access it or the
> machine on which the mapper is being executed can’t see this file. Can you
> manually check whether the file exists at all after the job fails?
> 
> Prasad
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Eva Tse <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:19:24 -0700
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Files does not exist error: concurrency control on hive
> queries...
> 
> 
> Prasad,
> We believe the problem is that one of the query is doing an ‘insert overwrite
> ... select from’ which actually is deleting and merging the small files. The
> other query somehow couldn’t find those files that it thought it has seen
> before and failed. So, it looks like a concurrency issue.
> 
> Yongqiang,
> Could you elaborate a bit on why you say this is not a bug?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eva.
> 
> 
> On 9/9/09 9:55 AM, "Prasad Chakka" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If a certain input file/dir does not exist then the job can’t be submitted.
> Since only a few reducers are failing, the problem could be something else.
> Eva, Does the same job succeed on a second try? Ie. Is the file/dir available
> eventually? What is the replication factor?
> 
> Prasad
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Yongqiang He <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:07:31 -0700
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Files does not exist error: concurrency control on hive
> queries...
> 
> Hi Eva,
>    After a close at the code, I think this is not a bug. We need to find out
> how to avoid this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yongqiang
> On 09-9-9 下午1:31, "He Yongqiang" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eva,
>     Can you open a new jira for this?  And let’s discuss and resolve this
> issue.
> I guess this is because the partition metadata is added before the data is
> available.
> 
> Thanks
> Yongqiang
> On 09-9-9 下午1:18, "Eva Tse" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> We are planning to start enabling ad-hoc querying on our hive warehouse and we
> tested some of the concurrent queries and found the following issue:
> 
> Query 1 – doing ‘insert overwrite table yyy .... partition (dateint = xxx)
> select ...  from yyy where dateint = xxx’  This is done to merge small files
> within a partition in table yyy
> Query 2 – doing some select on the same table joining another table.
> 
> What we found is that query 2 would fail with the following exceptions in
> multiple reducers.
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: File does not exist:
> hdfs://xxxxxxxxxxxxx.ec2.internal:9000/user/hive/dataeng/warehouse/nccp_sessio
> n_facts/dateint=20090908/hour=9/sessionsFacts_P20090909T021823L20090908T09-r-0
> 0006
>  at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.getFileStatus(DistributedFileSyst
> em.java:457)
>  at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.getLength(FileSystem.java:671)
>  at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.(SequenceFile.java:1417)
>  at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.(SequenceFile.java:1412)
>  at 
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileRecordReader.(SequenceFileRecordReader.ja
> va:43)
>  at 
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat.getRecordReader(SequenceFileI
> nputFormat.java:63)
>  at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat.getRecordReader(HiveInputFormat.j
> ava:236)
>  at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:336)
>  at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:305)
>  at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170)
> 
> Is this expected? If so, is there a jira or is it planned to be addressed? We
> are trying to think of workaround, but haven’t thought of good ones as
> swapping of files would ideally be handled inside hive.
> 
> Please let us know your feedback.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eva.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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