Minus query in HIVE

Question

Minus query seems to not work in HIVE.

Tried ex:

select x from abc 
minus 
select x from bcd ; 

Am I doing this wrong or minus que

Answer 1

At this time, Hive does not support the MINUS functionality. See http://www.quora.com/Apache-Hive/What-are-the-biggest-feature-gaps-between-HiveQL-and-SQL