Apache Big Data Europe 2016

Apache Hive has been continuously evolving to support a broad range of use cases, bringing it beyond its batch processing roots to its current support for interactive queries with LLAP. However, the development of its execution internals is not sufficient to guarantee efficient performance, since poorly optimized queries can create a bottleneck in the system. Hence, each release of Hive has included new features for its optimizer aimed to generate better plans and deliver improvements to query execution. In this talk, we present the development of the optimizer since its initial release. We describe its current state and how Hive leverages the latest Apache Calcite features to generate the most efficient execution plans. We show numbers demonstrating the improvements brought to Hive performance, and we discuss future directions for the next-generation Hive optimizer.