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Hadoop Blueprints

You're reading from   Hadoop Blueprints Use Hadoop to solve business problems by learning from a rich set of real-life case studies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783980307
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sudheesh Narayan Sudheesh Narayan
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Tanmay Deshpande Tanmay Deshpande
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hadoop and Big Data 2. A 360-Degree View of the Customer FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Fraud Detection System 4. Marketing Campaign Planning 5. Churn Detection 6. Analyze Sensor Data Using Hadoop 7. Building a Data Lake 8. Future Directions

Test driving Hive and Sqoop

In the previous section, we verified that MySQL, Hive, and Sqoop were available on our Hadoop Sandbox. We will now test drive Hive and Sqoop.

Querying data using Hive

We run Hive queries to select data from tables. Hive has two types of tables:

  • Managed tables
  • External tables

Hive creates managed tables by default. To create external tables, we specify the keyword external during table creation.

In the case of managed tables, the table lifecycle is completely managed by Hive. If you drop a managed table, then the associated data and metadata are also deleted by Hive. The external table reads data from an HDFS file. This file is not deleted when the table is dropped by Hive. Other tools can also access the HDFS file while at the same time we can run Hive queries on the HDFS by defining an external table for the file.

In Chapter 1, Hadoop and Big Data, of this book, we used a dataset containing the historical stock price of IBM to run a MapReduce job that calculated...

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Hadoop Blueprints
Published in: Sep 2016
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781783980307
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