RE: hive storing a byte array

2011-05-24 Thread Steven Wong
@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: hive storing a byte array Steven, Thanks for your reply! I have written it the way you mentioned, based on an earlier post in this mailing list. I'm concerned about having to encode/decode the string in base64, I'm wondering how much this will impact my job ru

Re: hive storing a byte array

2011-05-24 Thread Luke Forehand
Steven, Thanks for your reply! I have written it the way you mentioned, based on an earlier post in this mailing list. I'm concerned about having to encode/decode the string in base64, I'm wondering how much this will impact my job run time. I have also written a UDF that emits a byte array, st

RE: hive storing a byte array

2011-05-23 Thread Steven Wong
Hive does not support the blob data type. An option is to store your binary data encoded as string (such as using base64) and define them in Hive as string. -Original Message- From: Luke Forehand [mailto:luke.foreh...@networkedinsights.com] Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:21 PM To: user@hi