hive’s merge statement (it drops a lot of acid)

hive’s merge command provides another option for acid transactioning beyond insert, update and delete — this post walks you through a simple example and looks at the underlying filesystem at all the base, delta and delta_delete files that are created to support this standard sql command

hive acid transactions with partitions (a behind the scenes perspective)

let’s take a deeper look at what happens under the hood of hive on these “acid” activities such as insert, update and delete — including look at the actual directories and orc files created

how do i load a fixed-width formatted file into hive? (with a little help from pig)

presents a couple of options for converting a fixed-width formatted file a a delimited one to prepare it to be exposed as a hive table