Hi Xiayong, Q 1 :- You need to deploy the jar in the server where your hive is running. Q 2 :- Which language you are looking instead of Java ? . As per my understanding you can write UDF functions in python also ( I have not tried this from my end )
Regards, Rathish On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Xiaoyong Zhu <xiaoy...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Hi experts, I heard that if I want to use Hive UDFs, I must deploy the jars > to all the machines that are running Hive (which is painful to me..) > > After reading this I didn’t find any document talking about this – could > someone help to answer the following questions: > > 1. Do I really need to do so(deploy UDF jars to all the machines and > then use it)? > > 2. Is there a possibility that I could use other language (rather than > java) to write those UDFs? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Xiaoyong > > -- Regards, ------------------------- Rathish A M Bangalore