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Apache Hive Cookbook

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Apache Hive Cookbook

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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Apache Hive Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring HCatalog


Assuming that Hive has been configured in the remote metastore, let's look into how to install and configure HCatalog.

Getting ready

The HCatalog CLI supports these command-line options:

Option

Usage

Description

-g

hcat -g mygrp

The HCatalog table, which needs to be created, must have the group "mygrp".

-p

hcat -p rwxrwxr-x

The HCatalog table, which needs to be created, must have permissions "rwxrwxr-x".

-f

hcat -f myscript.hcat

Tells HCatalog that myscript.hcat is a file containing DDL commands to execute.

-e

hcat -e 'create table mytable(a int);'

Treat the following string as a DDL command and execute it.

-D

hcat -Dkey=value

Pass the key-value pair to HCatalog as a Java System Property.

 

Hcat

Prints a usage message.

How to do it...

Hive 0.11.0 HCatalog is packaged with Hive binaries. Because we have already configured Hive, we could access the HCatalog command-line hcat command on shell. The script is available at the hcatalog/bin directory.