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Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Big data is the current requirement. Most organizations produce huge amount of data every day. With the arrival of Hadoop-like tools, it has become easier for everyone to solve big data problems with great efficiency and at minimal cost. Grasping Machine Learning techniques will help you greatly in building predictive models and using this data to make the right decisions for your organization. Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook gives readers insights into learning and mastering big data via recipes. The book not only clarifies most big data tools in the market but also provides best practices for using them. The book provides recipes that are based on the latest versions of Apache Hadoop 2.X, YARN, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Apache Spark, Mahout and many more such ecosystem tools. This real-world-solution cookbook is packed with handy recipes you can apply to your own everyday issues. Each chapter provides in-depth recipes that can be referenced easily. This book provides detailed practices on the latest technologies such as YARN and Apache Spark. Readers will be able to consider themselves as big data experts on completion of this book. This guide is an invaluable tutorial if you are planning to implement a big data warehouse for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Storing and processing Hive data in the ORC file format


I'm sure that most of the time, you would have created Hive tables and stored data in a text format; in this recipe, we are going store data in ORC files.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have a running Hadoop cluster as well as the latest version of Hive installed on it. Here, I am going to use Hive 1.2.1.

How to do it...

Hive 1.2.1 supports different types of files, which help process data in a fast manner. In this recipe, we are going to use ORC files to store data in Hive. To store the data in ORC files, we first need to create a Hive table that stores the data in a textual format. We will use the same table that we created in the first recipe.

Creating a table to store ORCFILE is very easy, as shown here:

create table employee_orc(
id int, name string)
row format delimited
fields terminated by '|'
stored as ORC;

To insert data into the table from our text table, we need to execute the following query, which would start...