Hey, Hive tables are nothing but some meta-data overlay on top of folders in HDFS containing table data. So I guess hdfs-sink of flume suffices.
Please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Prashanth R <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just throwing this out to get some good ideas. Is anyone aware of any sink > for flume that would write / load data directly to the hive tables? If not, > one solution that I could think of is dump the data to hdfs or s3 and have a > periodic map reduce job load it to hive. > > -- > - Prash > -- Regards, Bharath .V w:http://researchweb.iiit.ac.in/~bharath.v
