Hi You can use distributed cache and hive add file command
See here for example syntax http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15429040/add-multiple-files-to-distributed-cache-in-hive Regards, Jagat On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Boesch <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have a UDF that is configured via a small properties file. What are > the options for distributing the file for the task nodes? Also we want to > be able to update the file frequently. > > We are not running on AWS so S3 is not an option - and we do not have > access to NFS/other shared disk from the Mappers. > > If the hive classes can access HDFS that would be likely most ideal - and > it would seem should be possible. I am not clear how to do that - since > the standard hdfs api requires the Configuration to be supplied - which is > not available. > > Pointers appreciated. > > stephenb >
