hive中常见的高级查询包括：group by、Order by、join、distribute by、sort by、cluster by、Union all。今天我们来看看order by操作，Order by表示按照某些字段排序，语法如下：

 

select col,col2...
from tableName
where condition
order by col1,col2 [asc|desc]

注意：

 

(1)：order by后面可以有多列进行排序，默认按字典排序。

(2)：order by为全局排序。

(3)：order by需要reduce操作，且只有一个reduce，无法配置(因为多个reduce无法完成全局排序)。

order by操作会受到如下属性的制约：

 

set hive.mapred.mode=nonstrict; (default value / 默认值)

set hive.mapred.mode=strict;

注：如果在strict模式下使用order by语句，那么必须要在语句中加上limit关键字，因为执行order by的时候只能启动单个reduce，如果排序的结果集过大，那么执行时间会非常漫长。

 

 

下面我们通过一个示例来深入体会order by的用法：

有一个employees表，数据如下：

 

hive> select * from employees;
OK
lavimer 15000.0 ["li","lu","wang"]  {           "k1":1.0,"k2":2.0,"k3":3.0}    {                 "street":"dingnan","city":"ganzhou","num":101} 2015-01-24  love
liao    18000.0 ["liu","li","huang"]    {           "k4":2.0,"k5":3.0,"k6":6.0}    {                 "street":"dingnan","city":"ganzhou","num":102} 2015-01-24  love
zhang   19000.0 ["xiao","wen","tian"]   {           "k7":7.0,"k8":8.0,"k8":8.0}    {                 "street":"dingnan","city":"ganzhou","num":103} 2015-01-24  love

 

现在我要按第二列(salary)降序排列：

 

hive> select * from employees order by salary desc;
//执行MapReduce的过程
Job 0: Map: 1  Reduce: 1   Cumulative CPU: 2.62 sec   HDFS Read: 415 HDFS Write: 245 SUCCESS
Total MapReduce CPU Time Spent: 2 seconds 620 msec
OK
zhang   19000.0 ["xiao","wen","tian"]   {           "k7":7.0,"k8":8.0} {               "street":"dingnan","city":"ganzhou","num":103} 2015-01-24  love
liao    18000.0 ["liu","li","huang"]    {           "k4":2.0,"k5":3.0,"k6":6.0}    {                 "street":"dingnan","city":"ganzhou","num":102} 2015-01-24  love
lavimer 15000.0 ["li","lu","wang"]  {           "k1":1.0,"k2":2.0,"k3":3.0}    {                 "street":"dingnan","city":"ganzhou","num":101} 2015-01-24  love
Time taken: 20.484 seconds
hive>

此时的hive.mapred.mode属性为：

 

 

hive> set hive.mapred.mode;
hive.mapred.mode=nonstrict
hive>

现在我们将它改为strict，然后再使用order by进行查询：

 

 

hive> set hive.mapred.mode=strict;
hive> select * from employees order by salary desc;
FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: 1:33 In strict mode, if ORDER BY is specified, LIMIT must also be specified. Error encountered near token 'salary'
hive>

注：在strict模式下查询必须加上limit关键字。

 

 

hive> select * from employees order by salary desc limit 3;
FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: No partition predicate found for Alias "employees" Table "employees"

注：另外还有一个要注意的是strict模式也会限制分区表的查询，解决方案是必须指定分区

先来看看分区：

 

 

hive> show partitions employees;
OK
date_time=2015-01-24/type=love
Time taken: 0.096 seconds

在strict模式先使用order by查询：

 

 

hive> select * from employees where partition(date_time='2015-01-24',type='love') order by salary desc limit 3;
FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:30 cannot recognize input near 'partition' '(' 'date_time' in expression specification

hive
    > select * from employees where date_time='2015-01-24' and type='love' order by salary desc limit 3;

//执行MapReduce程序

Total MapReduce CPU Time Spent: 3 seconds 510 msec
OK
zhang   19000.0 ["xiao","wen","tian"]   {           "k7":7.0,"k8":8.0} {               "street":"dingnan","city":"ganzhou","num":103} 2015-01-24  love
liao    18000.0 ["liu","li","huang"]    {           "k4":2.0,"k5":3.0,"k6":6.0}    {                 "street":"dingnan","city":"ganzhou","num":102} 2015-01-24  love
lavimer 15000.0 ["li","lu","wang"]  {           "k1":1.0,"k2":2.0,"k3":3.0}    {                 "street":"dingnan","city":"ganzhou","num":101} 2015-01-24  love
Time taken: 19.861 seconds
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