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EXPLAIN Syntax

Hive provides an EXPLAIN command that shows the execution plan for a query. The syntax for this statement is as follows:

EXPLAIN [EXTENDED] query

The use of EXTENDED in the EXPLAIN statement produces extra information about the operators in the plan. This is typically physical information like file names.

A Hive query gets converted into a sequence (it is more an Directed Acyclic Graph) of stages. These stages may be map/reduce stages or they may even be stages that do metastore or file system operations like move and rename. The explain output comprises of three parts:

  • The Abstract Syntax Tree for the query
  • The dependencies between the different stages of the plan
  • The description of each of the stages

The description of the stages itself shows a sequence of operators with the metadata associated with the operators. The metadata may comprise of things like filter expressions for the FilterOperator or the select expressions for the SelectOperator or the output file names for the FileSinkOperator.

As an example, consider the following EXPLAIN query:

EXPLAIN
FROM src INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE dest_g1 SELECT src.key, sum(substr(src.value,4)) GROUP BY src.key;

The output of this statement contains the following parts:

  • The Abstract Syntax Tree 
    ABSTRACT SYNTAX TREE:
  (TOK_QUERY (TOK_FROM (TOK_TABREF src)) (TOK_INSERT (TOK_DESTINATION (TOK_TAB dest_g1)) (TOK_SELECT (TOK_SELEXPR (TOK_COLREF src key)) (TOK_SELEXPR (TOK_FUNCTION sum (TOK_FUNCTION substr (TOK_COLREF src value) 4)))) (TOK_GROUPBY (TOK_COLREF src key))))
  • The Dependency Graph 
    STAGE DEPENDENCIES:
  Stage-1 is a root stage
  Stage-2 depends on stages: Stage-1
  Stage-0 depends on stages: Stage-2
    This shows that Stage-1 is the root stage, Stage-2 is executed after Stage-1 is done and Stage-0 is executed after Stage-2 is done.
  • The plans of each Stage 
    STAGE PLANS:
  Stage: Stage-1
    Map Reduce
      Alias -> Map Operator Tree:
        src
            Reduce Output Operator
              key expressions:
                    expr: key
                    type: string
              sort order: +
              Map-reduce partition columns:
                    expr: rand()
                    type: double
              tag: -1
              value expressions:
                    expr: substr(value, 4)
                    type: string
      Reduce Operator Tree:
        Group By Operator
          aggregations:
                expr: sum(UDFToDouble(VALUE.0))
          keys:
                expr: KEY.0
                type: string
          mode: partial1
          File Output Operator
            compressed: false
            table:
                input format: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat
                output format: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileOutputFormat
                name: binary_table

  Stage: Stage-2
    Map Reduce
      Alias -> Map Operator Tree:
        /tmp/hive-zshao/67494501/106593589.10001
          Reduce Output Operator
            key expressions:
                  expr: 0
                  type: string
            sort order: +
            Map-reduce partition columns:
                  expr: 0
                  type: string
            tag: -1
            value expressions:
                  expr: 1
                  type: double
      Reduce Operator Tree:
        Group By Operator
          aggregations:
                expr: sum(VALUE.0)
          keys:
                expr: KEY.0
                type: string
          mode: final
          Select Operator
            expressions:
                  expr: 0
                  type: string
                  expr: 1
                  type: double
            Select Operator
              expressions:
                    expr: UDFToInteger(0)
                    type: int
                    expr: 1
                    type: double
              File Output Operator
                compressed: false
                table:
                    input format: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat
                    output format: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.IgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat
                    serde: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.DynamicSerDe
                    name: dest_g1

  Stage: Stage-0
    Move Operator
      tables:
            replace: true
            table:
                input format: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat
                output format: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.IgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat
                serde: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.DynamicSerDe
                name: dest_g1
    In this example there are 2 map/reduce stages (Stage-1 and Stage-2) and 1 File System related stage (Stage-0). Stage-0 basically moves the results from a temporary directory to the directory corresponding to the table dest_g1.

A map/reduce stage itself comprises of 2 parts:

  • A mapping from table alias to Map Operator Tree - This mapping tells the mappers which operator tree to call in order to process the rows from a particular table or result of a previous map/reduce stage. In Stage-1 in the above example, the rows from src table are processed by the operator tree rooted at a Reduce Output Operator. Similarly, in Stage-2 the rows of the results of Stage-1 are processed by another operator tree rooted at another Reduce Output Operator. Each of these Reduce Output Operators partitions the data to the reducers according to the criteria shown in the metadata.
  • A Reduce Operator Tree - This is the operator tree which processes all the rows on the reducer of the map/reduce job. In Stage-1 for example, the Reducer Operator Tree is carrying out a partial aggregation where as the Reducer Operator Tree in Stage-2 computes the final aggregation from the partial aggregates computed in Stage-1
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