How do I output the results of a HiveQL query to CSV

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we would like to put the results of a Hive query to a CSV file. I thought the command should look like this:

insert overwrite directory '/home/output.csv' select books from table;

When I run it, it says it completeld successfully but I can never find the file. How do I find this file or should I be extracting the data in a different way?

Nov 20, 2020 in Big Data Hadoop by anonymous
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A slight modification (adding the LOCAL keyword) will store the data in a local directory.

INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY '/home/lvermeer/temp' select books from table;

When I run a similar query, here's what the output looks like.

[lvermeer@hadoop temp]$ ll
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lvermeer users 811 Aug  9 09:21 000000_0
[lvermeer@hadoop temp]$ head 000000_0 
"row1""col1"1234"col3"1234FALSE
"row2""col1"5678"col3"5678TRUE

Personally, I usually run my query directly through Hive on the command line for this kind of thing, and pipe it into the local file like so:

hive -e 'select books from table' > /home/lvermeer/temp.tsv

That gives me a tab-separated file that I can use. Hope that is useful for you as well.

answered Nov 20, 2020 by Gitika
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Hi,

The insert overwrite directory is running in an incorrect way. You need not specify the file extension. Just give the path to your directory. The correct method is shown below.

$ insert overwrite directory '/home/output' select books from table;

Also, note that the insert overwrites directory basically removes all the existing files under the specified folder and then create data files as part files.

answered Dec 18, 2020 by akhtar
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