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Scott Shaw, Andreas François Vermeulen, Ankur Gupta and David Kjerrumgaard, Practical Hive, 10.1007/978-1-4842-0271-5_5

5. Data Manipulation Language (DML)

Scott Shaw, Andreas François Vermeulen2, Ankur Gupta3 and David Kjerrumgaard4

(1)Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

(2)West Kilbride North Ayrshire, UK

(3)Uxbridge, UK

(4)Henderson, Nevada, USA

The Hive data manipulation language is the base for all data processing in the Hive ecosystem.

The objectives of this chapter are to:

  • Understand the fundamental building blocks of the Hive DML

  • Understand the impact of key optional setting

  • Combine the fundamental building blocks to achieve data processing

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