It is possible to enable Fetch task in Hive for simple query instead of Map or MapReduce using hive hive.fetch.task.conversion parameter.
Please explain why Fetch task is running much faster than Map especially when doing some simple work (for example select * from table limit 10;)? What map-only task is doing additionally in this case? The performance difference is more than 20 times faster in my case. Both tasks should read the table data, isn't it?
FetchTask directly fetches data, whereas Mapreduce will invoke a map reduce job
<property>
<name>hive.fetch.task.conversion</name>
<value>minimal</value>
<description>
Some select queries can be converted to single FETCH task
minimizing latency.Currently the query should be single
sourced not having any subquery and should not have
any aggregations or distincts (which incurrs RS),
lateral views and joins.
1. minimal : SELECT STAR, FILTER on partition columns, LIMIT only
2. more : SELECT, FILTER, LIMIT only (+TABLESAMPLE, virtual columns)
</description>
</property>Also there is another parameter hive.fetch.task.conversion.threshold which by default in 0.10-0.13 is -1 and >0.14 is 1G(1073741824)
This indicates that, If table size is greater than 1G use Mapreduce instead of Fetch task