[HIVE-14654] Enable support for binary and blob datatypes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Database/Schema
• Labels: datatypes hive
• Flags: Patch, Important
• Assignee: a
• Reporter: Akshay
• Created: 26/Aug/16 17:11
• Updated: 26/Aug/16 20:38

Description

Currently when you use map reduce across mysql and other data endpoints. Hive induces some limitations while transferring blob and binary data. It would be good to add support for binary and other datatypes which are present in RDS.