Unfortunately, Avro format is not supported for a Hive import. You can fire a JIRA for that. Note that the trunk version of Sqoop1 supports Hive import as Parquet.
-- Qian Xu (Stanley) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 8:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hive import is not compatible with importing into AVRO format Hey,there: Does hive support the format of avroFile.As I know it just supoort rcfile,textfile,sequencefile.Hope this helpful to you. From: pratik khadloya<mailto:[email protected]> Date: 2014-09-12 08:26 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Hive import is not compatible with importing into AVRO format I am trying to import data from a free form mysql query into hive. I need the files to be as AVRO data files, but when i pass the --as-avrodatafile option, i get a compatibility error. Is there a way i can tell sqoop to use the avro file format? $ bin/sqoop import -jt <jobtracker> --connect jdbc:mysql://<mydbserver>/<mydb> --username <dbuser> --password <dbpwd> --target-dir /user/pkhadloya/sqoop/mytable --query “<my query> WHERE \$CONDITIONS" --num-mappers 1 --hive-import --hive-table mytable --create-hive-table --as-avrodatafile ~Pratik
