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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

Inserting values into tables from SQL


In this recipe, you will learn how to insert data from SQL into a table in Hive.

Inserting data into a Hive table through a SQL statement is the third variant of inserting data. This is the traditional way of inserting data into a table in any RDBMS. Inserting in a table through SQL statements can only be performed if the table supports ACID. The general format of inserting data into a table is as follows:

INSERT INTO TABLE table_name [PARTITION (partcol1[=val1], partcol2[=val2] ...)] VALUES values_row [, values_row ...]

Where:

  • tablename: This is the name of the table

  • values_row: This is the value that is to be inserted into the table

Getting ready

This recipe requires having Hive installed as described in the Installing Hive recipe of Chapter 1, Developing Hive. You will also need the Hive CLI or Beeline client to run the commands.

This recipe requires transactions to be enabled, so refer to Enabling transactions in Hive for that (https://cwiki.apache.org...