I'm not sure about partitioning but the scans are currently limited based on start and stop keys ( if predicates on rowkeys are provided in the query)
See Hive-1643 ,2815 jiras ! On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:09 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > All, > > So, I have an external table in hive backed by a huge hbase table. I was > wondering what are the best practices to partition my data so that my > queries do not have to do a full-table scan always? > > A quick research on this yielded some ways where the partition would need > to be created and then data loaded into these partitions. Or to use dynamic > partitions. > > Is there any way to limit the scans based on the start and stop keys? > Also, if I decide to go with dynamic partitions, how do I keep the data up > to date in my partitioned tables? > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > Swarnim > > -- > Regards, > Bharath .V > w:http://researchweb.iiit.ac.in/~bharath.v > >
