The metastore is relatively small. We have hundreds of tables and thousands partitions and we are at 10GB. I hear it will be smaller once I update to hive 0.9.0.
I would go with a number like 80GB so I can have many local backups and headroom etc. Edward On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Pedro Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to start using Amazon RDS as the metastore for Hive (running of > Amazon EMR). Is there any ball park figure for the size of the RDS instance > required? I guess this depends on number of tables, partitions, etc., but I > couldn't find any information about how that translates to metastore size. > > Thank you in advance, > > Pedro > > Pedro Figueiredo > Skype: pfig.89clouds > http://89clouds.com/ - Big Data Consulting > > > >
