Apache Hive Cookbook

Using operators

Hive supports various built-in operators. There are four types of operator in Hive:

• Relational operators
• Arithmetic operators
• Logical operators
• Complex operators

Using relational operators

Relational operators are used to compare two operands. The output of comparison produces TRUE or FALSE depending on the comparison of operands.

The following table describes relational operators available in Hive:

Operator	Operand Type	Description
A = B	All primitive data types	This returns True if primitives are equal, otherwise False.
A != B	All primitive data types	This returns True if primitive A is not equal to B, False otherwise. It would return Null if A or B is NULL.
A <=> B	All primitive data types	This returns the same result as ...