[HIVE-4732] Reduce or eliminate the expensive Schema equals() check for AvroSerde

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Serializers/Deserializers
• Assignee: Mohammad Islam
• Reporter: Mark Wagner
• Created: 13/Jun/13 22:53
• Updated: 22/Sep/13 09:43
• Resolved: 21/Sep/13 20:36

Description

The AvroSerde spends a significant amount of time checking schema equality. Changing to compare hashcodes (which can be computed once then reused) will improve performance.