Best Practices

This chapter provides best practices on using the components and features that are part of a HAWQ system.

• Best Practices for Configuring HAWQ Parameters

  This topic provides best practices for configuring the parameters in hawq-site.xml.

• Best Practices for Operating HAWQ

  This topic provides best practices for operating HAWQ, including recommendations for stopping, starting and monitoring HAWQ.

• Best Practices for Securing HAWQ

  To secure your HAWQ deployment, review the recommendations listed in this topic.

• Best Practices for Managing Resources

  This topic describes best practices for managing resources in HAWQ.

• Best Practices for Managing Data

  This topic describes best practices for creating databases, loading data, partioning data, and recovering data in HAWQ.

• Best Practices for Querying Data

  To obtain the best results when querying data in HAWQ, review the best practices described in this topic.