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Apache Hive Cookbook

Apache Hive Cookbook

By : Hanish Bansal, Saurabh Chauhan, Shrey Mehrotra
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Apache Hive Cookbook

Apache Hive Cookbook

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By: Hanish Bansal, Saurabh Chauhan, Shrey Mehrotra

Overview of this book

Hive was developed by Facebook and later open sourced in Apache community. Hive provides SQL like interface to run queries on Big Data frameworks. Hive provides SQL like syntax also called as HiveQL that includes all SQL capabilities like analytical functions which are the need of the hour in today’s Big Data world. This book provides you easy installation steps with different types of metastores supported by Hive. This book has simple and easy to learn recipes for configuring Hive clients and services. You would also learn different Hive optimizations including Partitions and Bucketing. The book also covers the source code explanation of latest Hive version. Hive Query Language is being used by other frameworks including spark. Towards the end you will cover integration of Hive with these frameworks.
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Using complex data types


In addition to primitive data types, Hive also supports a few complex data types: Struct, MAP, and Array. Complex data types are also known as collection data types. Most relational databases don't support such data types.

Complex data types can be built from primitive data types:

  • STRUCT: The struct data type in Hive is analogous to the STRUCT in C programming language. It is a record type that holds a set of named fields that can be of any primitive data types. Fields in the STRUCT type are accessed using the DOT (.) notation.

    Syntax: STRUCT<col_name : data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...>

    For example, if a column address is of the type STRUCT {city STRING; state STRING}, then the city field can be referenced using address.city.

  • MAP: The map data type contains key-value pairs. In Map, elements are accessed using the keys. For example, if a column name is of type Map: 'firstname' -> 'john' and 'lastname' -> 'roy', then the last name can be accessed using the...

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