How to update partition metadata in Hive , when partition data is manualy deleted from HDFS

EDIT : Starting with Hive 3.0.0 MSCK can now discover new partitions or remove missing partitions (or both) using the following syntax : MSCK [REPAIR] TABLE table_name [ADD/DROP/SYNC PARTITIONS] This was implemented in HIVE-17824 As correctly stated by HakkiBuyukcengiz, MSCK REPAIR doesn’t remove partitions if the corresponding folder on HDFS was manually deleted, it only … Read more

What is hive, Is it a database? [closed]

Hive is a data warehousing package/infrastructure built on top of Hadoop. It provides an SQL dialect called Hive Query Language (HQL) for querying data stored in a Hadoop cluster. Like all SQL dialects in widespread use, HQL doesn’t fully conform to any particular revision of the ANSI SQL standard. It is perhaps closest to MySQL’s … Read more

Spark final task takes 100x times longer than first 199, how to improve

Spark >= 3.0 Since 3.0 Spark provides built-in optimizations for handling skewed joins – which can be enabled using spark.sql.adaptive.optimizeSkewedJoin.enabled property. See SPARK-29544 for details. Spark < 3.0 You clearly have a problem with a huge right data skew. Lets take a look a the statistics you’ve provided: df1 = [mean=4.989209978967438, stddev=2255.654165352454, count=2400088] df2 = … Read more

How to convert .txt file to Hadoop’s sequence file format

So the way more simplest answer is just an “identity” job that has a SequenceFile output. Looks like this in java: public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException, ClassNotFoundException { Configuration conf = new Configuration(); Job job = new Job(conf); job.setJobName(“Convert Text”); job.setJarByClass(Mapper.class); job.setMapperClass(Mapper.class); job.setReducerClass(Reducer.class); // increase if you need sorting or a special … Read more