I'm getting a bunch of errors during my reduce step while doing a join between two string fields for some reason.

java.lang.RuntimeException: Hive 2 Internal error: cannot evaluate index expression on string at org .apache .hadoop .hive .ql.exec.ExprNodeIndexEvaluator.evaluate(ExprNodeIndexEvaluator.java:64) at org .apache .hadoop .hive .ql.exec.ExprNodeFuncEvaluator.evaluate(ExprNodeFuncEvaluator.java:72) at org .apache .hadoop .hive .ql.exec.ExprNodeFuncEvaluator.evaluate(ExprNodeFuncEvaluator.java:72) at org .apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FilterOperator.process(FilterOperator.java: 67)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:262)
at org .apache .hadoop .hive.ql.exec.JoinOperator.createForwardJoinObject(JoinOperator.java: 257) at org .apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.JoinOperator.genObject(JoinOperator.java: 477) at org .apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.JoinOperator.genObject(JoinOperator.java: 467) at org .apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.JoinOperator.genObject(JoinOperator.java: 467) at org .apache .hadoop.hive.ql.exec.JoinOperator.checkAndGenObject(JoinOperator.java: 507) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.JoinOperator.endGroup(JoinOperator.java: 489) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecReducer.reduce(ExecReducer.java: 140)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:430)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:155)

The Query is
SELECT activities.*, users.* FROM activities LEFT OUTER JOIN users ON activities.actor_id = users.id WHERE activities.dataset='poke' AND activities.properties['verb'] = 'Dance';
hive> DESCRIBE activities;
OK
actor_id        string
actee_id        string
properties      map<string,string>
account string
application     string
dataset string
hour    int

hive> DESCRIBE users;
OK
id      string
properties      map<string,string>
account string
application     string
dataset string
hour    int

Thanks

Josh

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