1.DDL操作
1.1 建表
CREATE [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] table_name [(col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...)] [COMMENT table_comment] [PARTITIONED BY (col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...)] [CLUSTERED BY (col_name, col_name, ...) [SORTED BY (col_name [ASC|DESC], ...)] INTO num_buckets BUCKETS] [ROW FORMAT row_format] [STORED AS file_format] [LOCATION hdfs_path]
•CREATE TABLE 创建一个指定名字的表。如果相同名字的表已经存在,则抛出异常;用户可以用 IF NOT EXIST 选项来忽略这个异常
•EXTERNAL 关键字可以让用户创建一个外部表,在建表的同时指定一个指向实际数据的路径(LOCATION)
•LIKE 允许用户复制现有的表结构,但是不复制数据
•COMMENT可以为表与字段增加描述
•ROW FORMAT
DELIMITED [FIELDS TERMINATED BY char] [COLLECTION ITEMS TERMINATED BY char]
[MAP KEYS TERMINATED BY char] [LINES TERMINATED BY char]
| SERDE serde_name [WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (property_name=property_value, property_name=property_value, ...)]
用户在建表的时候可以自定义 SerDe 或者使用自带的 SerDe。如果没有指定 ROW FORMAT 或者 ROW FORMAT DELIMITED,将会使用自带的 SerDe。在建表的时候,用户还需要为表指定列,用户在指定表的列的同时也会指定自定义的 SerDe,Hive 通过 SerDe 确定表的具体的列的数据。
•STORED AS
SEQUENCEFILE
| TEXTFILE
| RCFILE
| INPUTFORMAT input_format_classname OUTPUTFORMAT output_format_classname
如果文件数据是纯文本,可以使用 STORED AS TEXTFILE。如果数据需要压缩,使用 STORED AS SEQUENCE 。
1.1.1 创建简单表
hive> CREATE TABLE pokes (foo INT, bar STRING);
1.1.2 创建外部表
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE page_view(viewTime INT, userid BIGINT, page_url STRING, referrer_url STRING, ip STRING COMMENT 'IP Address of the User', country STRING COMMENT 'country of origination') COMMENT 'This is the staging page view table' ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '