[HIVE-3660] Improve OutputFormat for Hive

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Serializers/Deserializers
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 02/Nov/12 18:14
• Updated: 02/Nov/12 18:15

Description

Hive's output formats are currently given a list of binary blobs to store, which severely limits the options for file formats. I'd like to create a new OutputFormat interface that provides:

• table properties
• object inspector for the row
• type info for the row

The RecordWriter would be passed the internal row object.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-1133 Refactor InputFormat and OutputFormat for Hive