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Cloudera Impala Generate Sequence Numbers without UDF

If you are migrating from traditional database to Cloudera Impala then you might have noticed there is not sequence number function. In the process of Cloudera Impala Generate Sequence Numbers without UDF, you can use analytical function that are available in Cloudera Impala. If you want generate sequential sequences that automatically keep in sync with your table sequence number, you can do so with the help of Cloudera impala supported ROW_NUMBER analytical function. Related reading: Impala Conditional Functions An Introduction to Cloudera Hadoop Impala Architecture Commonly used Impala shell Command…

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October 16, 2016

BigData

Run Impala SQL Script File Passing argument and Working Example

If you are porting Hive SQL scripts to Impala, you may come across passing variable to sql script as argument in Impala. You may get challenge to run Impala SQL script file passing argument. Prior to impala-shell version 2.5 there was no option to pass the value to script as arguments. Read: Impala Dynamic SQL Support and Alternative Approaches Run Hive Script File Passing Parameter and Working Example CDH 5.7/Impala shell version 2.5 and higher run Impala SQL Script File Passing argument. You can make use of the --var=variable_name option…

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October 14, 2016

BigData

Commonly used Impala shell Command Line Options

You can use the Impala shell interactive tool (impala-shell) to set up databases and tables, insert data, and issue queries. If you have worked on Netezza or Oracle, this tool is similar to nzsql and SQLPlus. For ad hoc queries and data exploration, you can submit SQL statements in an interactive session. You can write the queries in the script file and execute those using Impala shell Command Line Options. Read: Impala Conditional Functions An Introduction to Hadoop Impala Architecture Impala shell Command Line Options Command line Options Description -i…

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October 14, 2016

BigData

Impala Conditional Functions: IF, CASE, COALESCE, DECODE, NVL, ZEROIFNULL

Cloudera Impala supports the various Conditional functions. You can use these function for testing equality, comparison operators and check if value is null. Following are Impala Conditional Functions: Impala IF Conditional Function This is the one of best Impala Conditional Functions and is similar to the IF statements in other programming languages. Tests an expression and returns a corresponding result depending on whether the result is true, false or null. Read: An Introduction to Impala Architecture Syntax: if(boolean condition, type ifTrue, type ifFalseOrNull) For example; select if(1=1,'TRUE','FALSE') as IF_TEST; Impala CASE…

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October 13, 2016

BigData

An Introduction to Cloudera Hadoop Impala Architecture

Cloudera Hadoop impala architecture is very different compared to other database engine on HDFS like Hive. The Impala server is a distributed, massively parallel processing (MPP) database engine. The architecture is similar to the other distributed databases like Netezza, Greenplum etc. Hadoop impala consists of different daemon processes that run on specific hosts within your CDH cluster. Read: Sqoop Architecture Sqoop Import Sqoop Export Netezza and Hadoop Integration Hadoop HDFS Architecture Introduction and Design Cloudera Hadoop Impala Architecture Overview The Hadoop impala is consists of three components: The Impala Daemon,…

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October 13, 2016