Michael, Thanks for the reply.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Michael Armbrust <mich...@databricks.com> wrote: > My question is that is "NOSCAN" option a must? If I execute "ANALYZE TABLE >> <tablename> compute statistics" command in Hive shell, is the statistics >> going to be used by SparkSQL to decide broadcast join? > > > Yes, spark SQL will only accept the simple no scan version. However, as > long as the sizeInBytes statistic is present, we will use it. > >