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Number of of consecutive failed compactions for a given partition after which the Initiator will stop attempting to schedule compactions automatically. It is still possible to use ALTER TABLE to initiate compaction. Once a manually initiated compaction succeeds, auto initiated compactions will resume. Note that this must be less than hive.compactor.history.retention.failed.
Indexing
Indexing was added in Hive 0.7.0 with HIVE-417, and bitmap indexing was added in Hive 0.8.0 with HIVE-1803. For more information see Indexing.
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