How to compress output of the mapreduce output in Hive

Question

Hi. I am running a MapReduce job using Hive and I want to output of the MapReduce job to be compressed. How can I compress the output of the job? Please help

Answer 1

To compress the output of the MapReduce job, you have to enable the compression feature. You can do this as follows:

$ hive --hiveconf hive.exec.compress.output=true