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Zheng Shao commented on HIVE-931:
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Is the "sorted by" property always the same as "bucketed by" for a table?

The name "hive.optimize.groupby" is a bit too general but I guess it's OK for 
now. Can we explain what is "bucketed group by" in the hive-default.xml? Users 
probably won't understand what it is.


> Sorted Group By
> ---------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-931
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-931
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Namit Jain
>            Assignee: He Yongqiang
>             Fix For: 0.5.0
>
>         Attachments: hive-931-2009-11-18.patch, hive-931-2009-11-19.patch, 
> hive-931-2009-11-20.3.patch, hive-931-2009-11-21.patch, 
> hive-931-2009-12-01.patch, hive-931-2009-12-03.patch
>
>
> If the table is sorted by a given key, we don't use that for group by. That 
> can be very useful.
> For eg: if T is sorted by column c1,
> For select c1, aggr() from T group by c1
> we always use a single map-reduce job. No hash table is needed on the mapper, 
> since the data is sorted by c1 anyway.
> This will reduce the memory pressure on the mapper and also remove overhead 
> of maintaining the hash table.

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