[HIVE-6023] Numeric Data Type Support

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Database/Schema, File Formats
• Labels: Data Hive Numeric Type1

Environment

Hive 0.90, Linux, Hadoop, Data Type Extension

• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Deepak Raj
• Created: 12/Dec/13 17:11
• Updated: 16/Jan/14 06:21
• Resolved: 16/Jan/14 06:21

Description

Many companies are rethinking their strategies to adapt Hive into their ETL just for the reason that it does not support the most basic data types like Numeric(a,b). I believe there should be an improvement with upcoming versions of hive. Can we extend the hive with custom UDF for Numeric(a,b) data type?