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Apache Hive Essentials
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Apache Hive Essentials

by Dayong Du
February 2015
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
4h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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ORDER and SORT

Another aspect to manipulate data in Hive is to properly order or sort the data or result sets to clearly identify the important facts, such as top N values, maximum, minimum, and so on.

There are the following keywords used in Hive to order and sort data:

  • ORDER BY (ASC|DESC): This is similar to the RDBMS ORDER BY statement. A sorted order is maintained across all of the output from every reducer. It performs the global sort using only one reducer, so it takes a longer time to return the result. Usage with LIMIT is strongly recommended for ORDER BY. When hive.mapred.mode = strict (by default, hive.mapred.mode = nonstrict) is set and we do not specify LIMIT, there are exceptions. This can be used as follows:
    jdbc:hive2://> SELECT name ...
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ISBN: 9781783558575