Hive does not support the blob data type. An option is to store your binary data encoded as string (such as using base64) and define them in Hive as string.
-----Original Message----- From: Luke Forehand [mailto:luke.foreh...@networkedinsights.com] Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:21 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: hive storing a byte array Hello, Can someone please provide an example in Hive, how I can store a serialized object in a field? A field type of byte array or binary or blob is really what I was looking for, but if something slightly less trivial is involved some instruction would be much appreciated. This object is used in a custom UDF later on in the processing pipeline. -Luke
