September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
9h 46m
English
Content preview from Programming HiveBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Glossary
- Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Amazon’s EMR is a hosted Hadoop service on top of Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud).
- Avro
Avro is a new serialization format developed to address some of the common problems associated with evolving other serialization formats. Some of the benefits are: rich data structures, fast binary format, support for remote procedure calls, and built-in schema evolution.
- Bash
The “Bourne-Again Shell” that is the default interactive command shell for Linux and Mac OS X systems.
- S3 Bucket
The term for the top-level container you own and manage when using S3. A user may have many buckets, analogous to the root of a physical hard drive.
- Command-Line Interface
The command-line interface (CLI) can run “scripts” of Hive statements or all the user to enter statements interactively.
- Data Warehouse
A repository of structured data suitable for analysis for reports, trends, etc. Warehouses are batch mode or offline, as opposed to providing real-time responsiveness for online activity, like ecommerce.
- Derby
A lightweight SQL database that can be embedded in Java applications. It runs in the same process and saves its data to local files. It is used as the default SQL data store for Hive’s metastore. See http://db.apache.org/derby/ for more information.
- Dynamic Partitions
A HiveQL extension to SQL that allows you to insert query results into table partitions where you leave one or more partition column values unspecified and they are determined dynamically from the query results themselves. ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.