> Is anybody storing there index in a non-native table such as HBase? ... > Can you please point to implementations of HiveIndexHandler or >AbstractIndexHandler > that have usesIndexTable=false
I don't think there are any publically available implementations yet. The Hive HBase-metastore project adds a standardized HBase instance into the mixture in hive-2.0. We already moved the min-max indexes in ORC to the HBase metastore https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-11676 + https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12075 + https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12061 I haven't really worked out how the aggregate indexes should work, but the goal is to produce min-max indexes (then bloom filters). The representative query (in my mind) looks somewhat like UPDATE txns SET reversed=true where txn_id = 1; where txns is partitioned by date. Cheers, Gopal
