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Dayong Du has all his career dedicated to enterprise data and analytics for more than 10 years, especially on enterprise use case with open source big data technology, such as Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Spark, etc. Dayong is a big data practitioner as well as author and coach. He has published the 1st and 2nd edition of Apache Hive Essential and coached lots of people who are interested to learn and use big data technology. In addition, he is a seasonal blogger, contributor, and advisor for big data start-ups, co-founder of Toronto big data professional association.
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Performance utilities

HQL provides the EXPLAIN and ANALYZE statements, which can be used as utilities to check and identify the performance of queries. In addition, Hive logs contain enough detailed information for performance investigation and troubleshooting.

EXPLAIN statement

Hive provides an EXPLAIN statement to return a query execution plan without running the query. We can use it to analyze queries if we have concerns about their performance. The EXPLAIN statement helps us to see the difference between two or more queries for the same purpose. The syntax for it is as follows:

EXPLAIN [FORMATTED|EXTENDED|DEPENDENCY|AUTHORIZATION] hql_query

The following keywords can be used:

  • FORMATTED: This provides a formatted JSON...
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Dayong Du has all his career dedicated to enterprise data and analytics for more than 10 years, especially on enterprise use case with open source big data technology, such as Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Spark, etc. Dayong is a big data practitioner as well as author and coach. He has published the 1st and 2nd edition of Apache Hive Essential and coached lots of people who are interested to learn and use big data technology. In addition, he is a seasonal blogger, contributor, and advisor for big data start-ups, co-founder of Toronto big data professional association.
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