Tag Archives: Hadoop

Hive and JSON made simple

Posted on February 7, 2014 by

It seems that JSON has become the lingua france for the Web 2.0 world. It’s simple, extendible, easily parsed by browsers, easily understood by humans, and so on. It’s no surprise then that a lot of our Big Data ETL … Continue reading →

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Let’s start off with collect()

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

One the most fundamental functions in Brickhouse is the collect UDF. Based on collect_set, and similar to methods in Ruby and other languages, collect aggregates records into either an array or map from multiple rows. It is the opposite of … Continue reading →

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