You can use Hive's TRANSFORM clause to do hadoop-streaming-like custom map-reduce jobs. You won't be restricted in any sense.
Zheng On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Abhijit Pol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hive supports column based storage using RC files. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-352 > > The question is: if I store hive tables in this format and once in a > while would like run some custom map-reduce jobs against the data in > this table, am I restricted in any sense? > > Thanks, > Abhi > -- Yours, Zheng
