Is there a way to load records from HBase into a pig relation based on the value of a particular column in HBase? Thank You
If you look at the source code for the pig HBase loader you can see it can filter on key range and timestamps and it can get columns by prefix but not filter by column value.
You can write your own loader (even based on that code) and add the capability you need. Note that the performance for filtering on column values would not be great anyway and filtering for that value in the mapper, while slower than filtering in an HBase filter, will not be that different (you'd be basically saving the interprocess communication from the regionserver to the pig mapper)
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I have a data structure in Hadoop with 100 columns and few hundred rows. Most of the times I need to query 65% of columns. In this case which is better to use HBASE or HIVE? Please advice.
Just number of columns you are accessing is NOT the criteria for deciding hbase or hive.
HIVE (SQL) :
Use Hive when you have warehousing needs and you are good at SQL and don't want to write MapReduce jobs. One important point though, Hive queries get converted into a corresponding MapReduce job under the hood which runs on your cluster and gives you the result. Hive does the trick for you. But each and every problem cannot be solved using HiveQL. Sometimes, if you need really fine grained and complex processing you might have to take MapReduce's shelter.
Hbase (NoSQL database):
You can use Hbase to serve that purpose. If you have some data which you want to access real time, you could store it in Hbase.
hbase get 'rowkey' is powerful when you know your access pattern
Hbase follows CP of CAP Theorm
Consistency:
Every node in the system contains the same data (e.g. replicas are never out of data)
Availability:
Every request to a non-failing node in the system returns a response
Partition Tolerance:
System properties (consistency and/or availability) hold even when the system is partitioned (communicate lost) and data is lost (node lost)
also have a look at this
Its very difficult to answer the question in one line.
HBASE is NoSQL database: your data need to store denormalized data because HBASE is very bad for joi
ning tables.
Hive: You can store data in similar format (normalized) in Hive, but would only see benefits when doing batch processing.
I am a newbie to Hadoop Ecosystem and I need some suggestion from Bigdata experts on achieving schema verification/validation before loading the huge data into hdfs.
The scenario is:
I have a huge dataset with given schema (having around 200
column-header in it). This dataset is going to be stored in Hive
tables/HDFS. Before loading the data into hive table/hdfs I want to
perform a schema level verification/validation on the data supplied to
avoid any unwanted errors/exception while loading the data into hdfs.
Like in case somebody tries to pass a data file having fewer or more
number of columns in it then at the first level of verification this
load fail.
What could be the best possible approach for achieving the same?
Regards,
Bhupesh
Since you have files, you can add them into HDFS,and run map reduce on top of that. Here you would be having a hold on each row, so you can verify number of columns, their types and any other validations.
When i referred to jason/xml, there is slight overhead to make map reduce identify the records in that format. However with respect to validation there is schema validation which you can enforce and also define only specific values for a field using schema. So once the schema is ready, your parsing(xml to java) and then store them at another final HDFS location for further use(like HBase). When you are sure that data is validated, you can create Hive tables on top of that.
Use below utility to create temp tables every time based on the schema you receive in csv file format in staging directory and then apply some conditions to identify whether you have valid columns or not. Finally load into original table.
https://github.com/enahwe/Csv2Hive
I have a scenario while was working on Hbase. Initially I have to bulkupload a csv file to Hbase table.Which I could do successfully by using Hbase bulkloading.
Now I want to update a particular field in hbase table by comparing to an new csv provided and if the value is updated have to maintain a flag which says the rowkey was updated. Any hint how I can do it easily.
Any help is really appreciated.
Thanks
HBase maintains versions for each cell. As long as you have the row key with you, you get a handle of the row, and you can just use put to add the updated column. Internally it maintains the versions, and you can have access to history of the updated values too.
However, you need comparing too, as I can see. So after bulk loading the fastest you can do it, use a map reduce as have HBase as source and sink. Look here at 7.2.2 section.
The idea is have mapreduce perform the scan, do comparision in map, and write the new updated put in output. Its like a basic fetch, modify and update sequence. But we are using map reduce parallel feature as we are dealing with large amount of data
I have a text file with N number of columns (Not sure, in the future I may have N+1).
Example:
1|A
2|B|C
3|D|E|F
I want to store above data into hbase using pig without writing UDF. How can I store this kind of data without knowing the number of columns in a file?
Put it in a map and then you can use cf1:* where cf1 is your column family
My Hbase table has rows that contain both serialized avro (put there using havrobase) and string data. I know that Hive table can be mapped to avro data stored in hdfs to do data analysis but I was wondering if anyone has tried to map hive to hbase table(s) that contains avro data. Basically I need to be able to query both avro and non avro data stored in Hbase, do some analysis and store the result in a different hbase table. I need the capability to do this as a batch job as well. I don't want to write a JAVA MapReduce job to do this because we have constantly changing configurations and we need to use a scripted approach. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
You can write an HBase co-processor to expose the avro record as regular HBase qualifiers. You can see an implementation of that in Intel's panthera-dot