The default dialect of HiveContext is hiveql which is already in use in
HIVE for many years, whereas it is sql for SQLContext which uses a simple
SQL parser provided by Spark SQL.
Since hiveql parser is more robust and complete than sql parser, so
HiveContext is preferred over SQLContext.
On Tue,
Daniel,
HiveContext is a subclass of SQLContext, thus offers a superset of features not
available in SQLContext, such as access to Hive UDF, Hive table, Hive Serde,
etc. This does not change in 1.3.1.
Quote from 1.3.1 documentation
“… using HiveContext is recommended for the 1.3 release of Spa
Is HiveContext still preferred over SQLContext?
What are the current (1.3.1) diferences between them?
thanks
Daniel
