Using TINYINT will help when we move data from mapper to reducer, because TINYINT takes only 1 byte. You should try TINYINT. Boolean is less tested so I am not sure how good it is.
Zheng On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Ryan LeCompte <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I just noticed there is a BOOLEAN Primitive type. I'm currently using INT > for boolean values (0 or 1). Should I expect any performance gains with Hive > if I properly use a BOOLEAN or TINYINT type? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > -- Yours, Zheng
