Hive - Create Table

This chapter explains how to create a table and how to insert data into it. The conventions of creating a table in HIVE is quite similar to creating a table using SQL.

Create Table Statement

Create Table is a statement used to create a table in Hive. The syntax and example are as follows:

Syntax

CREATE [TEMPORARY] [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.] table_name

[(col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...)]
[COMMENT table_comment]
[ROW FORMAT row_format]
[STORED AS file_format]

Example

Let us assume you need to create a table named employee using CREATE TABLE statement. The following table psts the fields and their data types in employee table:

The following data is a Comment, Row formatted fields such as Field terminator, Lines terminator, and Stored File type.

COMMENT ‘Employee details’
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘	’
LINES TERMINATED BY ‘
’
STORED IN TEXT FILE

The following query creates a table named employee using the above data.

hive> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS employee ( eid int, name String,
salary String, destination String)
COMMENT ‘Employee details’
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘	’
LINES TERMINATED BY ‘
’
STORED AS TEXTFILE;

If you add the option IF NOT EXISTS, Hive ignores the statement in case the table already exists.

On successful creation of table, you get to see the following response:

OK
Time taken: 5.905 seconds
hive>

JDBC Program

The JDBC program to create a table is given example.

import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.sql.DriverManager;

pubpc class HiveCreateTable {
   private static String driverName = "org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver";
   
   pubpc static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException {
   
      // Register driver and create driver instance
      Class.forName(driverName);
      
      // get connection
      Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:hive://localhost:10000/userdb", "", "");
      
      // create statement
      Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
      
      // execute statement
      stmt.executeQuery("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "
         +" employee ( eid int, name String, "
         +" salary String, destignation String)"
         +" COMMENT ‘Employee details’"
         +" ROW FORMAT DELIMITED"
         +" FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘	’"
         +" LINES TERMINATED BY ‘
’"
         +" STORED AS TEXTFILE;");
         
      System.out.println(“ Table employee created.”);
      con.close();
   }
}

Save the program in a file named HiveCreateDb.java. The following commands are used to compile and execute this program.

$ javac HiveCreateDb.java
$ java HiveCreateDb

Output

Table employee created.

Load Data Statement

Generally, after creating a table in SQL, we can insert data using the Insert statement. But in Hive, we can insert data using the LOAD DATA statement.

While inserting data into Hive, it is better to use LOAD DATA to store bulk records. There are two ways to load data: one is from local file system and second is from Hadoop file system.

Syntax

The syntax for load data is as follows:

LOAD DATA [LOCAL] INPATH  filepath  [OVERWRITE] INTO TABLE tablename 
[PARTITION (partcol1=val1, partcol2=val2 ...)]

LOCAL is identifier to specify the local path. It is optional.

OVERWRITE is optional to overwrite the data in the table.

PARTITION is optional.

Example

We will insert the following data into the table. It is a text file named sample.txt in /home/user directory.

1201  Gopal       45000    Technical manager
1202  Manisha     45000    Proof reader
1203  Masthanvap 40000    Technical writer
1204  Kiran       40000    Hr Admin
1205  Kranthi     30000    Op Admin

The following query loads the given text into the table.

hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH  /home/user/sample.txt 
OVERWRITE INTO TABLE employee;

On successful download, you get to see the following response:

OK
Time taken: 15.905 seconds
hive>

JDBC Program

Given below is the JDBC program to load given data into the table.

import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.sql.DriverManager;

pubpc class HiveLoadData {

   private static String driverName = "org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver";
   
   pubpc static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException {
   
      // Register driver and create driver instance
      Class.forName(driverName);
      
      // get connection
      Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:hive://localhost:10000/userdb", "", "");
      
      // create statement
      Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
      
      // execute statement
      stmt.executeQuery("LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH  /home/user/sample.txt " + "OVERWRITE INTO TABLE employee;");
      System.out.println("Load Data into employee successful");
      
      con.close();
   }
}

Save the program in a file named HiveLoadData.java. Use the following commands to compile and execute this program.

$ javac HiveLoadData.java
$ java HiveLoadData

Output:

Load Data into employee successful