Re: Hive Table with Avro Union

2017-07-31 Thread Elliot West
Hi Nishanth, While what you suggest is indeed feasible, it is not something that I'd recommend for the following reasons: 1. Consumers of the data will need to write conditional code in their HQL which will likely be difficult to write and maintain (although this might be unavoidable reg

Hive Table with Avro Union

2017-07-31 Thread Nishanth S
Hello All, I have a set of avro schemas(6 of them) which do not have any relation between them .The data in them is relatively small and are stored as 6 different hive tables now . What I would want to do is to convert them into a single hive table using avro unions .Is that something doable?