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Hive BIGINT vs INT storage and performance?

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If I'm having a column with BIGINT as datatype and it's having a value in INT's range, then will it take all the 8bytes or just 4bytes for storing?

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what about BIGINT and INT?

for example if I'm having a column with BIGINT as datatype and I'm inserting value in INT's range, will it take 8byte(as for BIGINT) or just 4bytes considering it is in INT range?

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@Gunjan Dhawas

based by the wiki, it will take 8 bytes.

INT/INTEGER (4-byte signed integer, from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647)
BIGINT (8-byte signed integer, from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807)

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Types#LanguageManualTypes-IntegralTy...

and https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Tutorial#Tutorial-TypeSystem

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@Gunjan Dhawas

based by the wiki, it will take 8 bytes.

INT/INTEGER (4-byte signed integer, from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647)
BIGINT (8-byte signed integer, from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807)

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Types#LanguageManualTypes-IntegralTy...

and https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Tutorial#Tutorial-TypeSystem