Chapter 10. Hacking with Hive
This chapter covers
- Learning how serialization and deserialization works in Hive
- Writing a UDF to use the distributed cache
- Optimizing your joins for faster query execution times
- Using the EXPLAIN command to understand how Hive is planning your work
Working with MapReduce is nontrivial and has a steep learning curve, even for Java programmers. Over the course of the next three chapters, we’ll look at technologies that lower the barrier of entry to MapReduce.
Let’s say that it’s nine o’clock in the morning and you’ve been asked to generate a report on the top ten countries that generated visitor traffic over the last month. And it needs to be done by noon. Your log data is sitting in HDFS ready to be used. ...
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