Loading data from many flat files into an RDBMS is a challenging operation. But in Hive, it won’t take long since Apache Hive is designed
Tag: Hive External Tables
External Tables in Apache Hive
When the data isn’t transient and you don’t want Hive to manage the table’s and data’s life cycle, you’ll consider creating external tables, as discussed
Hive Internal vs External Tables
This article offers a summary of the situations in which you would need to create internal (managed) tables and external tables in Apache Hive. Create “External” tables when: the data is being used outside the Hive. The data files are read and
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