Managing Apache Hive
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View compaction progress

You view the progress of compactions by running a Hive query.

Enter the query to view the progress of compactions.
SHOW COMPACTIONS;
  • Unique internal ID
  • Database name
  • Table name
  • Partition name
  • Major or minor compaction
  • Compaction state:
    • Initiated - waiting in queue
    • Working - currently compacting
    • Ready for cleaning - compaction completed and old files scheduled for removal
    • Failed - the job failed. Details are printed to the metastore log.
    • Succeeded
    • Attempted - initiator attempted to schedule a compaction but failed. Details are printed to the metastore log.
  • Thread ID
  • Start time of compaction
  • Duration
  • Hadoop job ID - ID of the submitted Hadoop job