Overview
PowerCenter customers can now build mappings that can read from and write to Hive. Hive connectivity is now supported through ODBC.
Features
Some salient features include:
- Reading from both internally and externally managed Hive tables
- Extensive data type support
- Easily ingest data from relational tables, flat files and others sources into Hive or vice-versa
- Query override support for complex and custom HiveQLs
- Read support for partitioned and bucketed Hive tables
- ANSI SQL-92 support
Known limitations
Following are the known limitations of the driver*:
- Write to partitioned Hive tables
- Write to bucketed Hive tables
* Support may vary between Hadoop distributions
References
Here are the KB articles that describe the simple steps that allow PowerCenter to read from and write to Hive.
