Thanks Mohammad, No, we do not have any plans to replace our RDBMS with Hive. Hadoop/Hive will be used as Data Warehouse & batch processing computing, as I said we want to use Hive for analytical queries.
-- Ibrahim On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Ibrahim, > > A quick questio. Are you planning to replace your SQL DB with Hive? > If that is the case, I would not suggest to do that. Both are meant for > entirely different purposes. Hive is for batch processing and not for real > time system. So if you are requirements involve real time things, you need > to think before moving ahead. > > Yes, Sqoop is 'the' tool. It is primarily meant for this purpose. > > HTH > > Best Regards, > Tariq > +91-9741563634 > https://mtariq.jux.com/ > > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Ibrahim Yakti <iya...@souq.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> We are new to hadoop and hive, we are trying to use hive to >> run analytical queries and we are using sqoop to import data into hive, in >> our RDBMS the data updated very frequently and this needs to be reflected >> to hive. Hive does not support update/delete but there are many workarounds >> to do this task. >> >> What's in our mind is importing all the tables into hive as is, then we >> build the required tables for reporting. >> >> My questions are: >> >> 1. What is the best way to reflect MySQL updates into Hive with >> minimal resources? >> 2. Is sqoop the right tool to do the ETL? >> 3. Is Hive the right tool to do this kind of queries or we should >> search for alternatives? >> >> Any hint will be useful, thanks in advanced. >> >> -- >> Ibrahim >> > >
