Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

Multiple table inserting using Hive

Hive allows you to write data to multiple tables or directories at a time. This is an optimized solution as a source table needs to be read only once, which helps reduce the time. In this recipe, we are going to take a look at how write data to multiple tables/directories in a single query.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have a running Hadoop cluster as well as the latest version of Hive installed on it. Here, I am using Hive 1.2.1.

How to do it

Let's say we have an employee table with columns such as ID, name, and salary:

Table – employee

1,A,1000
2,B,2000
3,C,3000
4,D,2000
5,E,1000
6,F,3000
7,G,1000
8,H,3000
9,I,1000
10,J,2000
11,K,1000
12,L,1000
13,M,1000
14,N,3000
15,O,3000
16,P,1000
17,Q,1000 ...