Hello, We are using Hive to query S3 data. For one of our tables named analyze, we generate data hierarchically. First level of hierarchy is date and second level is a field named *generated_by*. e.g. for 20 march we may have S3 directories as s3://analyze/20140320/111/ s3://analyze/20140320/222/ s3://analyze/20140320/333/ Size of files in each folders is typically small.
Till now we have been using static partitioning so that queries on specific date and *generated_by* would be faster. Now problem is that number of *generated_by* folders is increased to 1000s. Everyday we end up adding 1000s of partitions to Hive. So queries on analyze on one month are slowed down. Is there any way to get rid of partitions, and at the same time maintain good performance of queries which are fired on specific day and *generated_by*? -- Regards, Saumitra Shahapure
