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Ashutosh Chauhan resolved HIVE-1706. ------------------------------------ Resolution: Duplicate This got resolved as a part of HIVE-2380 > Support BLOB data type > ---------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1706 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1706 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Serializers/Deserializers > Affects Versions: 0.7.0 > Reporter: Ted Yu > > Quite often, we want to import blob data type from mysql/SQL Server to Hive. > Currently we either have to store BLOB data in HBase or pass the data as > base64 encoded string. Neither of which is efficient. > We should support byte array as native data type. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira