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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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Column statistics in Hive


Similar to table and partition statistics, Hive also supports the analysis of column statistics. The following are the statistics captured by Hive when a column or set of columns are analyzed:

  • The number of distinct values

  • The number of NULL values

  • Minimum or maximum K values where K could be given by a user

  • Histogram: frequency and height balanced

  • Average size of the column

  • Average or sum of all values in the column if their type is numerical

  • Percentiles of the value

How to do it…

As discussed in the previous recipe, Hive provides the analyze command to compute table or partition statistics. The same command could be used to compute statistics for one or more column of a Hive table or partition. The HiveQL in order to compute column statistics is as follows:

hive> ANALYZE TABLE t1 [PARTITION p1] COMPUTE STATISTICS FOR [COLUMNS c1, c2..]

Note

An analyze command does not support table or column aliases.

In the following example, the use of the analyze command is illustrated...

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