set hive.mapred.supports.subdirectories=true; set hive.optimize.skewjoin.compiletime = true; set hive.auto.convert.join=true; CREATE TABLE T1(key STRING, val STRING) SKEWED BY (key) ON ((2)) STORED AS TEXTFILE; LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '../../data/files/T1.txt' INTO TABLE T1; CREATE TABLE T2(key STRING, val STRING) SKEWED BY (key) ON ((3)) STORED AS TEXTFILE; LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '../../data/files/T2.txt' INTO TABLE T2; -- copy from skewjoinopt1 -- test compile time skew join and auto map join -- a simple join query with skew on both the tables on the join key -- adding an order by at the end to make the results deterministic EXPLAIN SELECT a.*, b.* FROM T1 a JOIN T2 b ON a.key = b.key; SELECT a.*, b.* FROM T1 a JOIN T2 b ON a.key = b.key ORDER BY a.key, b.key, a.val, b.val; -- test outer joins also EXPLAIN SELECT a.*, b.* FROM T1 a RIGHT OUTER JOIN T2 b ON a.key = b.key; SELECT a.*, b.* FROM T1 a RIGHT OUTER JOIN T2 b ON a.key = b.key ORDER BY a.key, b.key, a.val, b.val; -- an aggregation at the end should not change anything EXPLAIN SELECT count(1) FROM T1 a JOIN T2 b ON a.key = b.key; SELECT count(1) FROM T1 a JOIN T2 b ON a.key = b.key; EXPLAIN SELECT count(1) FROM T1 a RIGHT OUTER JOIN T2 b ON a.key = b.key; SELECT count(1) FROM T1 a RIGHT OUTER JOIN T2 b ON a.key = b.key;