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Dylan Coles @dylancoles12334   14, Jun 2023 12:00 AM
select * query and MapReduce
If you run a select * query in Hive, why doesn't it run MapReduce?
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Michaela Samuel @samuelmichaela5   21, Jun 2023 12:25 PM
The hive.fetch.task.conversion property of Hive lowers the latency of MapReduce overhead, and in effect when executing queries such as SELECT, FILTER, LIMIT, etc. it skips the MapReduce function.