Chapter 6. Running Hive Jobs

In this chapter, we will see how to run Hive jobs from Oozie. As part of concept building, we will talk about parameterization of Coordinator application actions.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Run Hive action from Oozie
  • Run Hive 2 action jobs from Oozie

From the concept point of view, we will:

  • Understand the concept parameterization of Coordinator application actions

Chapter case study

We will continue to build on the previous chapter's case study, in which we calculated the maximum rainfall in each month. We will insert the output of Pig script in Hive table, which will allow people to query it as and when needed.

We will start off by running Oozie Hive job via the command-line option and later see the Hive action in Workflow. ...

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