[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-2373) Importing hive tables into hbase+hive requires a lot of work which often can be implied

["John Sichi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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John Sichi commented on HIVE-2373:
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Posting the script somewhere and linking it from the wiki would be a good start:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HBaseIntegration

Putting something into Hive's HBase handler would be even better.  There's no need to add new reserved words; you could add new optional automapping configuration parameters to the HBase handler.


> Importing hive tables into hbase+hive requires a lot of work which often can be implied
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-2373
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2373
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Alex Newman
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The HiveQL way of creating a HBase table looks something like 
> REATE TABLE bla(id_1 type_1, id_2 type_2..., id_n type_n)
> STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler'
> WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ("hbase.columns.mapping" = ":key,cf:id_2, cf:id_3") TBLPROPERTIES ("hbase.table.name" = "blah");
> But in most cases huge amounts of this can be assumed from the original table description. In fact in most cases, especially ones when that data was imported from MySQL it is trivial to generate at least one HBase backing for that data. I currently wrote a python script which our users can use to make things simpler. Would anyone be interested in that script? Would it make sense to make it easy from Hive? I hate to add reserved words so any suggestions are welcome.

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