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Michael Haeusler updated HIVE-11022:
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    Description: 
Hive currently supports aggregation of lists "in order of input rows" with the 
UDF collect_list. Unfortunately, the order is not well defined when map-side 
aggregations are used.

Hive could support collecting lists in user-defined order by providing a UDF
COLLECT_LIST_SORTED(valueColumn, sortColumn[, limit]), that would return a list 
of values sorted in a user defined order. An optional limit parameter can 
restrict this to the n first values within that order.

Especially in the limit case, this can be efficiently pre-aggregated and 
reduces the amount of data transferred to reducers.

  was:
Hive currently supports aggregation of lists "in order of input rows" with the 
UDF collect_list. Unfortunately, the order is not well defined when map-side 
aggregations are used.

Hive could support collecting lists in user-defined order by providing a UDF
COLLECT_LIST_SORTED(valueColumn, sortColumn[, limit]), that would return a list 
of values sorted in a user defined order. An optional limit parameter can 
restrict this to the n first values within that order.

Especially in the limit case, this can be efficiently pre-aggregated and reduce 
the amount of data transferred to reducers.


> Support collecting lists in user defined order
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>
>                 Key: HIVE-11022
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-11022
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: UDF
>            Reporter: Michael Haeusler
>
> Hive currently supports aggregation of lists "in order of input rows" with 
> the UDF collect_list. Unfortunately, the order is not well defined when 
> map-side aggregations are used.
> Hive could support collecting lists in user-defined order by providing a UDF
> COLLECT_LIST_SORTED(valueColumn, sortColumn[, limit]), that would return a 
> list of values sorted in a user defined order. An optional limit parameter 
> can restrict this to the n first values within that order.
> Especially in the limit case, this can be efficiently pre-aggregated and 
> reduces the amount of data transferred to reducers.



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