Hive handles data in the following four ways:
- Hive tables
- Hive table partition
- Hive partition bucketing
- Hive views
We will see each one of them in detail in the following sections.
Hive handles data in the following four ways:
We will see each one of them in detail in the following sections.
A Hive table is very similar to any RDBMS table. The table is divided into rows and columns. Each column (field) is defined with a proper name and datatype. We have already seen all the available datatypes in Hive in the Supported datatypes section. A Hive table is divided into two types:
We will learn about both of these types in the following sections.