You could write your query to a file and do something like: hive -f <filename1> & hive -f <filename2> &
etc. to invoke many instances in parallel. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Chinna Rao Lalam <chinna...@huawei.com>wrote: > Hi, > > > > Hive calls are blocking calls because once the query is executed it will > return the ResultSet from that result set u will get the results. > > > > *"hive.exec.parallel" *property will helps to speed up the query > execution if the query generates more than one independent tasks. If it > generates independent tasks if this > > property is true it will execute the independent tasks parallely otherwise > it will execute sequentially. > > > > Thanks&Regards, > > Chinna Rao Lalam > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Ghousia [ghousia.ath...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:12 PM > *To:* user@hive.apache.org > *Subject:* Asynchronous query exection > > Hi, > > Hive queries take longer time to execute, and by default it is a blocking > call. Is there any way provided by Hive client to supports non blocking > execution. > > Also, to execute jobs parallely, I tried setting the *"hive.exec.parallel" > * to true in hive-site.xml. But this did not work, Looking at the code, > it looks like the same flow is been followed both for serial and parallel > execution. > > Any inputs would be of great help. > > Thanks, > Ghousia. > > > > >