Stirring the Hive with a Perl Stick

Chuck Hardin

Nami Media

Table of Contents
1. Abstract
2. Brief Overview of Hadoop and Hive
3. Why Use Hadoop And Hive?
4. "SQL-Like": Benefits And Drawbacks
5. Hive Server Versus Hive Server 2
6. Sending Queries To Hive From Perl Via Thrift
7. Building HiveQL Queries: A Brief Note
8. Use Case: Replacing An Existing Reporting System
9. So How Can Hive Help?
10. How Else Can Perl Help Hive?
11. Other Resources

1. Abstract

Hive provides a SQL-like interface to Hadoop. Perl can interoperate with Hive in a variety of ways, including Hive queries through a Thrift API and the direct incorporation of Perl into map-reduce jobs. The author has taken a few baby steps on this journey and chooses to share the results with his peers.

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