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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

Enabling transactions in Hive


In this recipe, you will learn how to configure the Hive metastore to enable Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability (ACID) properties for a Hive table. Insert, Update and Delete are not possible in Hive until the ACID properties are not enabled. Also table must to be Bucketed in Hive if Insert, Update and Delete feature are to be used.

Transactions including inserts, updates, and deletes are available from Hive 1.0.0 and above.

Getting ready

To allow the user to execute transactional commands, the user needs to configure the metastore with transactional tables. The user needs to set the following properties in hive-site.xml:

<configuration>
    <property>
        <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
        <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hivedb</value>
        <description>metadata is stored in a MySQL server</description>
    </property>
    <property>
        <name>javax.jdo.option...