What is Supported?

The following list identifies some usage notes:
  • The engine does not support views or BY-group processing.
  • You cannot replace or overwrite tables in memory. You must unload the table and then load the new table.
  • You cannot use the APPEND procedure. However, you can use an APPEND= data set option to achieve the same result.
  • Loading tables into memory from HDFS is performed with the LASR procedure. You cannot load tables into memory from HDFS with the engine.
  • The engine guarantees the data order for a particular configuration of worker nodes. If you load a table in to a server and you retrieve the data three times, the order of the data is the same. However, if you start another server and load the same table into a different number of worker nodes, then the order in which you retrieve the data is different. However, it is reproducible within fetches from a single server.
  • Any order-dependent operation, such as the LAG or DIF functions, cannot rely on stability of results beyond that which can be guaranteed by the distribution model of the data.