Exporting Hive Table to a S3 bucket

Question

I\'ve created a Hive Table through an Elastic MapReduce interactive session and populated it from a CSV file like this:

CREATE TABLE csvimport(id BIGINT, tim         


        

Answer 1

Above Query needs to use EXTERNAL keyword, i.e:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE csvexport ( id BIGINT, time STRING, log STRING ) 
row format delimited fields terminated by ',' lines terminated by '\n' 
STORED AS TEXTFILE LOCATION 's3n://bucket/directory/';
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE csvexport select id, time, log from csvimport;

An another alternative is to use the query

INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY 's3n://bucket/directory/'  select id, time, log from csvimport;

the table is stored in the S3 directory with HIVE default delimiters.