Shwetha G S created ATLAS-442: --------------------------------- Summary: Hive model to handle cascaded deletes Key: ATLAS-442 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-442 Project: Atlas Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Shwetha G S
Ideally, hive model should be like this: type - attributes hive_table - ..., partitions(list<hive_partition>), ... hive_partition - values(list<string>), ... partitions attribute in hive_table is composite. Add partition is frequent in hive, and this would result in create new partition and add this reference to table. So, this results in create entity + update array for hive_table entity. Since the number of partitions can be large, we want to avoid updates to hive_table entity every time. Hence hive model is implemented now as: hive_table - ... hive_partition - table(hive_table), values(list<string>), ... In this model, there is no way to indicate that partitions are composite attributes of table and hence deleting table will nor result in deleting of partitions. But we need the cascading delete of partitions in this case. We need to figure out a way to solve this. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)