How to make a table skewed on map value

2014-12-01 Thread Miljan Markovic
Hi, I am trying to make an avro backed table that will hold a map in one of it's columns. One of map's keys has a highly skewed values so I want to declare that in table definition. However when I do it like so: CREATE TABLE my_table PARTITIONED BY (rec_date date) SKEWED BY (myDataMap['skewed

Schema less hive table. Is it possible?

2013-11-07 Thread Miljan Markovic
Hello. I have a set of complex structured objects that I would like to put into hive and use it's sql to query data from those objects. Now, since they are complex structures, defining a schema for every single field is a hard job. Instead I'm thinking of making a custom SerDe with custom O