BROADCAST_BYTES_LIMIT Query Option
Sets the limit for the size of the broadcast input based on estimated size.
The Impala planner may in rare cases make a bad choice to broadcast a large table or intermediate result and encounter performance problems due to high memory pressure. Setting this limit will make the planner pick a partition based hash join instead of broadcast and avoid such performance problems.
Type: integer
Default:
The default value is 34359738368 (32 GB). A value of 0 causes the option to be ignored.
Examples:
-- Change the limit to 16GB.
set broadcast_bytes_limit=17179869184;
-- Disable the BROADCAST_BYTES_LIMIT.
set broadcast_bytes_limit=0;