How can we decide the total no. of buckets for a hive table

Question

i am bit new to hadoop. As per my knowledge buckets are fixed no. of partitions in hive table and hive uses the no. of reducers same as the total no. of buckets defined while creating the table. So can anyone tell me how to calculate the total no. of buckets in a hive table. Is there any formula for calculating the total number of buckets ?

Answer 1

Lets take a scenario Where table size is: 2300 MB, HDFS Block Size: 128 MB

Now, Divide 2300/128=17.96

Now, remember number of bucket will always be in the power of 2.

So we need to find n such that 2^n > 17.96

n=5

So, I am going to use number of buckets as 2^5=32

Hope, It will help some of you.

Answer 2

From the documentation link

In general, the bucket number is determined by the expression hash_function(bucketing_column) mod num_buckets. (There's a '0x7FFFFFFF in there too, but that's not that important). The hash_function depends on the type of the bucketing column. For an int, it's easy, hash_int(i) == i. For example, if user_id were an int, and there were 10 buckets, we would expect all user_id's that end in 0 to be in bucket 1, all user_id's that end in a 1 to be in bucket 2, etc. For other datatypes, it's a little tricky. In particular, the hash of a BIGINT is not the same as the BIGINT. And the hash of a string or a complex datatype will be some number that's derived from the value, but not anything humanly-recognizable. For example, if user_id were a STRING, then the user_id's in bucket 1 would probably not end in 0. In general, distributing rows based on the hash will give you a even distribution in the buckets.