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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

Working with Google Drill


In this recipe, you will learn how to integrate Hive with Google Drill.

Getting ready

Google Drill is an open source SQL query engine by Apache. Google Drill is designed in such a manner that it works on semi-structured data giving quality performance on rapidly immerging data using almost same syntax used in ANSI SQL. For integrating Hive with Google Drill, there are few prerequisites that must be met. In this topic, we will cover the use of Hive and Drill. You must have Google Drill installed on your system before going further in the topic.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to access the Hive table from Google Drill:

  1. Create the table Sales_Drill through the Hive shell:

    CREATE TABLE 'Sales_drill'(
      'id' int,
      'fname' string,
      'lname' string,
      'address' string,
      'city' string,
      'state' string,
      'ip' string,
      'p_id' string,
      'dop' string)
    row format delimited fields terminated by '\t' stored as textfile;
  2. Once the table is created, load the data into the Sales_Drill...