June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
210 pages
5h 12m
English
User-defined functions provide a way to use the user's own application/business logic for processing column values during an HQL query. For example, a user-defined function could perform feature cleaning with an external machine learning library, authenticate user access from other services, merge several values into one or many, perform special data encoding or encryption, and other operations that are outside the scope of the regular HQL operators and functions. Hive defines the following three types of user-defined functions, which are extensible:
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