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EXPLAIN [EXTENDED|DEPENDENCY] 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.

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• 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

The use of DEPENDENCY in the EXPLAIN statement produces extra information about the inputs in the plan. It shows various attributes for the inputs. For example, for a query like:

EXPLAIN DEPENDENCY
  SELECT key, count(1) FROM srcpart WHERE ds IS NOT NULL GROUP BY key

the following output is produced:

{"input_partitions":[{"partitionName":"default<at:var at:name="srcpart" />ds=2008-04-08/hr=11"},{"partitionName":"default<at:var at:name="srcpart" />ds=2008-04-08/hr=12"},{"partitionName":"default<at:var at:name="srcpart" />ds=2008-04-09/hr=11"},{"partitionName":"default<at:var at:name="srcpart" />ds=2008-04-09/hr=12"}],"input_tables":[{"tablename":"default@srcpart","tabletype":"MANAGED_TABLE"}]}

The inputs contain both the tables and the partitions. Note that the table is present even if none of the partitions is accessed in the query.