CHAPTER 11

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Creating an Apache Hive Table with MongoDB

MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database. MongoDB is based on the BSON (Binary JSON) JSON-style document format, which is based on dynamic schemas providing flexibility in storage. The Hive MongoDB Storage Handler makes it feasible to access MongoDB from Apache Hive. A Hive external table may be created on a MongoDB document store. In this chapter we shall create a document store in MongoDB, and subsequently create a Hive external table on the MongoDB document store.

Apache Hadoop is a framework for distributed processing of large data sets. Apache Hadoop file system is the Hadoop Distributed ...

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