Considering a case where we have multi HBase columns in an HBase table,
each containing data of a different structure would warrant a need for
multiple SerDe to map them to a single Hive table. Correct?

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote:

> This does not work. A Deserializer's role is to turn the value which
> came form the InputFormat into something hive can use as column data.
> In essence the Deserializer creates the columns so I do not see a
> logical way to have more then one.
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:53 AM, kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com
> <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was thinking more from a perspective of specifying a SerDe per column
> > name.
> >
> > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Mark Grover <mgro...@oanda.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Swarnim,
> >> What's your use case?
> >> If you use multiple SerDe's, when you are writing to the table, how
> would
> >> you want Hive to decide which one to use?
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> Mark Grover, Business Intelligence Analyst
> >> OANDA Corporation
> >>
> >> www: oanda.com www: fxtrade.com
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "kulkarni swarnim" <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com>
> >> To: user@hive.apache.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:29:26 AM
> >> Subject: Multiple SerDe per table name
> >>
> >> Does hive currently support multiple SerDe s to be defined per table
> name?
> >> Looking through the code and documentation, it seems like it doesn't as
> only
> >> one could be specified through the ROW FORMAT SERDE but just wanted to
> be
> >> sure.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Swarnim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Swarnim
>



-- 
Swarnim

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