Add export/import facilities to the hive system
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                 Key: HIVE-1918
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1918
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Query Processor
            Reporter: Krishna Kumar


This is an enhancement request to add export/import features to hive.

With this language extension, the user can export the data of the table - which 
may be located in different hdfs locations in case of a partitioned table - as 
well as the metadata of the table into a specified output location. This output 
location can then be moved over to another different hadoop/hive instance and 
imported there.  

This should work independent of the source and target metastore dbms used; for 
instance, between derby and mysql.

For partitioned tables, the ability to export/import a subset of the partition 
must be supported.

Howl will add more features on top of this: The ability to create/use the 
exported data even in the absence of hive, using MR or Pig. Please see 
http://wiki.apache.org/pig/Howl/HowlImportExport for these details.



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