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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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Dropping a database schema

In this recipe, you will learn how to drop a database in Hive.

Getting ready

Drop Database statements drop the database and the objects inside that database. When a database is dropped, its directory is also deleted. The general format of dropping a database is as follows:

DROP (DATABASE|SCHEMA) [IF EXISTS] database_name [RESTRICT|CASCADE];

Where:

  • DATABASE|SCHEMA: These are the same thing. These words can be used interchangeably.
  • [IF EXISTS]: This is an optional clause. If not used, an error is thrown when there is an attempt to drop a database that does not exist.
  • [RESTRICT|CASCADE]: This is an optional clause. RESTRICT is used to restrict the database from getting dropped if there are one or more tables present in the database. RESTRICT is the default behavior of the database. CASCADE is used to drop all the tables present in the database before dropping the database.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to drop a database in Hive:

  1. The following statement drops the...

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