Hive query output to file

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I run hive query by java code  Example       SELECT   FROM table WHERE id   100    How to export result to hdfs file

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Enter this line into Hive command line interface:

insert overwrite directory '/data/test' row format delimited fields terminated by '\t' stored as textfile select * from testViewQuery;

testViewQuery - some specific view

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This will put the results in tab delimited file s  under a directory   INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY   home hadoop YourTableDir  ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY   t  STORED AS TEXTFILE SELECT   FROM table WHERE id  gt  100

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To directly save the file in HDFS  use the below command   hive gt  insert overwrite  directory   user cloudera Sample  row format delimited fields terminated by   t  stored as textfile select   from table where id  gt 100    This will put the  contents in the folder  user cloudera Sample in HDFS

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To set output directory and output file format and more  try the following   INSERT OVERWRITE  LOCAL  DIRECTORY directory1  ROW FORMAT row format   STORED AS file format   SELECT     FROM       Example   INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY   path to output dir  ROW FORMAT DELIMITED STORED AS PARQUET SELECT   FROM table WHERE id  gt  100

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The ideal way to do it will be using  INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY   pathtofile  select   from temp where id   100  instead of  hive -e  select   from        filepath txt

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I agree with tnguyen80 s response  Please note that when there is a specific string value in query better to given entire query in double quotes   For example    hive -e  select   from table where city    London  and id  gt  100   gt   home user outputdirectory city details csv

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This command will redirect the output to a text file of your choice    hive -e  select   from table where id  gt  10   gt    sample output txt

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sarath how to overwrite the file if i want to run another select   command from a different table and write to same file    INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY   home training mydata outputs       SELECT expl   count expl  as total     FROM        SELECT explode splits  as expl       FROM         SELECT split words      as splits        FROM wordcount        t2       t3      GROUP BY expl     This is an example to sarath s question   the above is a word count job stored in outputs file which is in local directory

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The following query will insert the results directly into HDFS   INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY   path to output dir  SELECT   FROM table WHERE id  gt  100

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Two ways can store HQL query results      Save into HDFS Location   INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY  HDFS Path  ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY     SELECT   FROM XXXX LIMIT 10     Save to Local File    hive  -e  select   from table Name   gt    sample output txt  hive -e  select   from table where city    London  and id  gt  100   gt   home user outputdirectory city details csv

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Create an external table Insert data into the table Optional drop the table later  which wont delete that file since it is an external table   Example   Creating external table to store the query results at   user myName projectA additionaData    CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE additionaData        ID INT       latitude STRING       longitude STRING   COMMENT  Additional Data gathered by joining of the identified cities with latitude and longitude data   ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY     STORED AS TEXTFILE location   user myName projectA additionaData      Feeding the query results into the temp table   insert into additionaData       Select T ID  C latitude  C longitude       from TWITER        join CITY C on  T location name   C location     Dropping the temp table  drop table additionaData

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