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How to validate which compression technique has been applied to hive?

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I have create table in hive and specified compression as gzip during table creation

I am not able to find way that gzip has been applied on newly created table

is there any command which specify compression technique applied on hive.

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I am able to resolve it. issue with create and select together.

I've created table first then inserted data, now able to see gzip as tableproperties in desc command

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@payal patel

The compression of the table can be validated by checking the definition of the hive table using the command:

hive> describe formatted <hive_table>;

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I am able to see that compressed as No. I think I need to set configuration for compression separately in hive

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able to run ..Thanks

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@payal patel

What you see when you run show create table <tablename>; ?

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there is message only that query runs "succeed"

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I am running hive query using HIve view of Ambari and executing below query

CREATE TABLE t11 STORED AS parquet TBLPROPERTIES("parquet.COMPRESS"="gzip") AS SELECT * FROM abc;

Here abc table already contain some data

Post execution, it shows that query status as "Succeed"

then I verified data by executing "select * from t11".I am able to see data.

I want to verify that gzip has been applied or not.so I did not find way yet

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show create table t11;

What you get in output?

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getting below output

CREATE TABLE `t11`( `organisation` string, `org_skill` string, `emp_name` string, `pageurl` string, `cookie` string, `referurl` string, `time` string, `employeeid` string) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.serde.ParquetHiveSerDe' STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.MapredParquetInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.MapredParquetOutputFormat' LOCATION 'hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/apps/hive/warehouse/t11' TBLPROPERTIES ( 'COLUMN_STATS_ACCURATE'='true', 'numFiles'='1', 'numRows'='55', 'parquet.COMPRESS'='gzip', 'rawDataSize'='440', 'totalSize'='2046', 'transient_lastDdlTime'='1469095673')

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Contributor

I am able to resolve it. issue with create and select together.

I've created table first then inserted data, now able to see gzip as tableproperties in desc command