Best Data Type for Hive Date Partition

[#1]

we need to partition our Hive Table based on date. Date/Month/Year

is it better to use int or string for the partition types.

ex:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE partition (id string, event timestamp and so on)
PARTITIONED BY (year INT, month INT, day INT)

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vs

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE partition (id string, event timestamp and so on)
PARTITIONED BY (year string, month string, day string)

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Noticed that we couldn't do queries like:

... where day > 10 with the string option

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I would suggest to use INT rather than STRING.

Firstly, searching based INT type is faster, and secondly, like you said, you can do numeric comparison, which will be different from the STRING type comparison.