loading Hive tables in SAS

[Ashib91]

Hi All,

Has anyone tried reading / importing hive tables in SAS ? The idea is to keep the schema of the tables intact while using them in SAS.

Can anyone help me on this ?

Regards,

Ashib

[ChrisNZ]

Do you have sas/access to Hadoop?

[Ashib91]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply, is it possible to achieve this without SAS/Access ? If we try to read the hive tables by making a connection between SAS and hadoop using proc SQL, will the schema of tables remain intact ?

Meanwhile I will check about the SAS / Access option.

Regards,

Ashib

[ChrisNZ]

1. You could use ODBC.

2. I am unsure I understand your concern.

- You won't change anything in Hadoop by just by reading data

- SAS will see the structure that Hadoop presents.

[Ashib91]

I will try to make it more clear, suppose there is a hive table with datatypes such as bigint etc. and if I make a connection between SAS and hadoop and read this table, will I be able to read the table correctly ?

Regards,

Ashib

[ChrisNZ]

It will be a number to SAS and be read accurately if it is smaller than 2^53 (on a PC or Unix machine).