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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-396:
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> I looked in hive-default.xml and didn't see any hive.merge.mapfiles. Should I 
> add it to hive-defult.xml and set it to false?

YES

> Out of curiosity, why do you default to merging map files first?

There are production map-only jobs which lead to a lot of small files for many 
partitions, which increases the load on the name node, and too many mappers for 
processing the data across many partitions.

> Hive performance benchmarks
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>
>                 Key: HIVE-396
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-396
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Zheng Shao
>            Assignee: Yuntao Jia
>         Attachments: AlansMRcode.tgz, hive_benchmark_2009-06-18.pdf, 
> hive_benchmark_2009-06-18.tar.gz, hive_benchmark_2009-07-12.pdf, 
> hive_benchmark_2009-07-21.tar.gz
>
>
> We need some performance benchmark to measure and track the performance 
> improvements of Hive.
> Some references:
> PIG performance benchmarks PIG-200
> PigMix: http://wiki.apache.org/pig/PigMix

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