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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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Writing data into files from queries


In this recipe, you will learn how to write data into a file from a query in Hive.

This part helps you insert data into a file with the help of a query; that is, the output of a query to be saved into a file. The general format of inserting data into a file is as follows:

Standard syntax:
INSERT OVERWRITE [LOCAL] DIRECTORY directory1 [ROW FORMAT row_format] [STORED AS file_format]SELECT select_statment FROM from_statment.

Hive extension (multiple inserts):
FROM from_statement
INSERT OVERWRITE [LOCAL] DIRECTORY directory1 select_statement1
[INSERT OVERWRITE [LOCAL] DIRECTORY directory2 select_statement2] ...

Where:

  • [LOCAL]: Is an optional clause. If this clause is specified, the preceding command will look for the file in the local filesystem. The command will follow the file path in the local filesystem.

  • [ROW FORMAT row_format]: Is an optional clause. With the help of this, we can specify the row format; that is, the delimiters or the fields terminated...

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