Does it need to be a sequential INT? If not, then a UUID works very well. Cheers, Tim
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:55 AM, afancy <grou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Zhang, > How to integrate this snowflake with Hive? Thanks! > Regards, > afancy > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Please refer https://github.com/twitter/snowflake >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:09 PM, afancy <grou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Does anybody know how to generate a unique ID in Hive? I have a table: >> > hive> describe results; >> > OK >> > id int >> > test string >> > Time taken: 0.091 seconds >> > >> > When I insert data into the table results, i want to generate a unqiue >> > Id, >> > which is like a sequence in RDBMS. >> > Regards, >> > afancy >> >> >> >> -- >> Best Regards >> >> Jeff Zhang > >
