Hi, Tim, I think sequential integer would be better. Is it difficult to generate a global integer? BTW: how to generate UUID in Hive? thanks
Regards, afancy On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Tim Robertson <timrobertson...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > > > >
