[IMPALA-1903] Add support for partitions by timestamp

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.2
• Component/s: Frontend
• Labels: ramp-up sql-language
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Assignee: Jim Apple
• Reporter: Grant Sohn
• Created: 19/Mar/15 16:51
• Updated: 15/Aug/19 17:14
• Resolved: 08/Apr/16 15:32

Description

Timestamps or some time related parameter is a very common way data is partitioned. At Yahoo almost all the Hadoop ETL data was partitioned this way. This should be on par with nested data types as an important feature for Impala to have.