We cannot put GPL code into Hive... licenses are incompatible. You can make it a dynamically configurable parameter. If the relevant classes in the CLASSPATH then they will be invoked. Otherwise, the stubs (built into hive) can throw an exception. A customer can download the maxmind stuff into his hive install and then set the config parameter appropriately to make Hive use them,
thanks, dhruba On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey all, > You may all be familiar with geo-ip from maxmind. > http://www.maxmind.com/app/api. GNU General Public License (GPL) > > I am running a process where I have to geo locate IP addresses. I > think this would be a good UDF. Right now I am using an external map > reduce process to be inserted back into hive. > > GEO-CITY(columnname) > GEO-STATE(columnname) > > The only drawback I can see is that GEO IP requires database files to > be on the local file system. However the functions could return NULL > if the local files do not exist. > > Does anyone think these would be useful in hive? > > Edward >
