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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

Using string data types


Hive supports three types of String data type, STRING, VARCHAR, and CHAR:

  • STRING: It is a sequence of characters that can be expressed using single quotes (') as well as double quotes (").

  • VARCHAR: It is variable-length character type. It is defined using a length specifier, which specifies the maximum number of characters allowed in the character string. Its syntax is VARCHAR(max_length). The value of the varchar data type gets truncated during processing if necessary to fit within the specified length. While converting the string value to the varchar value, if a string value exceeds the length specifier, then the string gets silently truncated. The maximum length of varchar type is 65355.

  • CHAR: It is fixed-length character type. It is defined in the same way as the varchar type. If the value is shorter as compared with the specified length, then the value is padded with trailing spaces to achieve the specified length. The maximum length of the char type is 255.

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