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Apache Hive Essentials - Second Edition
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Apache Hive Essentials - Second Edition

by Dayong Du
June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
210 pages
5h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Database

The database in Hive describes a collection of tables that are used for a similar purpose or belong to the same groups. If the database is not specified, the default database is used and uses /user/hive/warehouse in HDFS as its root directory. This path is configurable by the hive.metastore.warehouse.dir property in hive-site.xml. Whenever a new database is created, Hive creates a new directory for each database under /user/hive/warehouse. For example, the myhivebook database is located at /user/hive/datawarehouse/myhivebook.db. In addition, DATABASE has a name alias, SCHEMA, meaning they are the same thing in HQL. The following is the major DDL for databases operations:

  1. Create the database/schema if it doesn't exist:
 > CREATE ...
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ISBN: 9781788995092