Hi, I am working on a custom Pig source code that writes RDF data into text files. I was looking to instead *write to an ORCFile* for some of the columnar benefits it offers.
I understand that I need to use *HCatalog APIs*. I have an idea on how to create HCatSchema for my data. And that I would need to use the HCatOutputFormat for writing into ORCFile. I need some help on *how to specify the storage format as ORCFile.* I see that ORC has built-in support. But I cannot find any examples as to how to specify which output format the HCatalog APIs can write to (default Hive table or RCFile or ORCFile or Sequence File etc..). I would then need to work on reading from these ORCFiles and reconstruct the records. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, Abhishek
