Yes. Though for good performance it is usually important to make sure that you have statistics for the smaller dimension tables. Today that can be done by creating them in the hive metastore and running " ANALYZE TABLE table COMPUTE STATISTICS noscan".
In Spark 1.3 this will happen automatically when you create a table using the datasources API. CREATE TABLE myTable USING parquet OPTIONS (path "/...") On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Paolo Platter <paolo.plat...@agilelab.it> wrote: > Hi, > > is SparkSQL + Parquet suitable to replicate a star schema ? > > Paolo Platter > AgileLab CTO > >
