How to delete and update a record in Hive

Question

I have installed Hadoop, Hive, Hive JDBC. which are running fine for me. But I still have a problem. How to delete or update a single record using Hive because delete or upd

Answer 1

Recently I was looking to resolve a similar issue, Apache Hive, Hadoop do not support Update/Delete operations. So ? So you have two ways:

1. Use a backup table: Save the whole table in a backup_table, then truncate your input table, then re-write only the data you are intrested to mantain.
2. Use Uber Hudi: It's a framework created by Uber to resolve the HDFS limitations including Deletion and Update. You can give a look in this link: https://eng.uber.com/hoodie/

an example for point 1:

Create table bck_table like input_table;
Insert overwrite table bck_table 
    select * from input_table;
Truncate table input_table;
Insert overwrite table input_table
    select * from bck_table where id <> 1;

NB: If the input_table is an external table you must follow the following link: How to truncate a partitioned external table in hive?