How do you add Data to an Existing Hive Metastore? - sql

Question

I have multiple subdirectories in S3 that contain .orc files. I'm trying to create a hive metastore so I can query the data with Presto / Hive, etc. The data is poorlly structured (no consistent delimiter, ugly characters, etc). Here's a scrubbed sample:
1488736466 199.199.199.199 0_b.www.sphericalcow.com.f9b1.qk-g6m6z24tdr.v4.url.name.com TXT IN: NXDOMAIN/0/143
1488736466 6.6.5.4 0.3399.186472.4306.6668.638.cb5a.names-things.update.url.name.com TXT IN: NOERROR/3/306 0\009253\009http://az.blargi.ng/%D3%AB%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD/\009 0\009253\009http://casinoroyal.online/\009 0\009253\009http://d2njbfxlilvpsq.cloudfront.net/b_zq_ym_bangvideo/bangvideo0826.apk\009
I was able to create a table pointing to one of the subdirectories using a serde regex and the fields are parsing properly, but as far as I can tell I can only load one subfolder at a time.
How does one add more data to an existing hive metastore?
Here's an example of my hive metastore create statement with the regex serde bit:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test;
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE test (field1 string, field2 string, field3 string, field4 string)
COMMENT 'fill all the tables with the datas.'
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.RegexSerDe'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (
"input.regex" = "([0-9]{10}) ([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}) (\\S*) (.*)",
"output.format.string" = "%1$s %2$s %3$s %4$s"
)
STORED AS ORC
LOCATION 's3://path/to/one/of/10/folders/'
tblproperties ("orc.compress" = "SNAPPY", "skip.header.line.count"="2");
select * from test limit 10;
I realize there is probably a very simple solution, but I tried INSERT INTO in place of CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE, but it understandably complains about the input, and I looked in both the hive and serde documentation for help but was unable to find a reference to adding to an existing store.

Answer 1

Possible solution using partitions.
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE test (field1 string, field2 string, field3 string, field4 string)
partitioned by (mypartcol string)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.RegexSerDe'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (
"input.regex" = "([0-9]{10}) ([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}) (\\S*) (.*)"
)
LOCATION 's3://whatever/as/long/as/it/is/empty'
tblproperties ("skip.header.line.count"="2");
alter table test add partition (mypartcol='folder 1') location 's3://path/to/1st/of/10/folders/';
alter table test add partition (mypartcol='folder 2') location 's3://path/to/2nd/of/10/folders/';
.
.
.
alter table test add partition (mypartcol='folder 10') location 's3://path/to/10th/of/10/folders/';

Answer 2

For #TheProletariat (the OP)
It seems there is no need for RegexSerDe since the columns are delimited by space (' ').
Note the use of tblproperties ("serialization.last.column.takes.rest"="true")
create external table test
(
field1 bigint
,field2 string
,field3 string
,field4 string
)
row format delimited
fields terminated by ' '
tblproperties ("serialization.last.column.takes.rest"="true")
;