Query Hbase tables from Hive

By | August 25, 2014

Here is a simple example of querying Hbase data using Hive

Step 1:
Create a table in HBase

$hbase shell
hbase(main):002:0>create 'hbase_table','colfam1' 

Step 2:
Insert data into HBase table (I am randomly populating the table)

hbase(main):002:0> for i in 1..100 do for j in 1..100 do \
                    put 'hbase_table', "row-#{i}#{j}","colfam1:val","#{j}" end end

Step 3:
Create a table in Hive, which will query from our HBase table ‘hbase_table’


CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE hive_table_1(key string, value string)
STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ("hbase.columns.mapping" = "colfam1:val")
TBLPROPERTIES("hbase.table.name" = "hbase_table");

Step 4:
SELECT * FROM hive_table_1;

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One thought on “Query Hbase tables from Hive

  1. raju64522

    Greetings! Very helpful advice in this particular post! It’s the little changes that will make the greatest changes. Many thanks for sharing!

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