Apache Hive

  • Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH)

    . Happy to share the earning of CCDH certification  🙂 Verification URL:  http://certification.cloudera.com/verify   (with License # 100-013-285) . Loads of conceptual as well as programming questions that include multiple choice questions as well. Reading Hadoop: The Definitive Guide and Programming Hive a couple of times and practicing Map-Reduce programming model rigorously, was instrumental in clearing the exams. Setting up

    Read more →

  • Writing a Generic UDF in Hive

    . There are few type of UDFs that we can write in Hive. Functions that act on each column value passed to it, e.g. Select Length(name) From Customer Specific functions written for a specific data type (simple UDFs) Generic functions written to working with more than one data type Functions that act on a group

    Read more →

  • Loading Data in Pig Using HCatalog

    . HCatalog is an extension of Hive and in a nutshell, it exposes the schema information in Hive Metastore such that applications outside of Hive can use it. The objective of HCatalog is to hold the following type of information about the data in HDFS – Location of the data Metadata about the data (e.g.

    Read more →

  • Writing Simple UDF in Hive

    . There are a few type of UDFs that we can write in Hive. Functions that act on each column value passed to it, e.g. Select Length(name) From Customer Specific functions written for a specific data type Generic functions written to working with more than one data type (GenericUDF) Functions that act on a group

    Read more →

  • . Apache Hive is an abstraction on top of HDFS data, that allow querying the data using the familiar SQL like language, called HiveQL (Hive Query Language). Hive was developed at Facebook to allow data analysts to query data using an SQL like language. Hive has limited commands and is similar to basic SQL (advance SQL options

    Read more →