I believe I found a solution.  I ended up writing the raw ORC files to HDFS (via PutHDFS) and then loading them into Hive internal tables (via Hive3QL).  The command to load data into a Hive table from an existing file is:   LOAD DATA INPATH 'hdfs:///data/orc_file_name' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE hivedatabasename.tablename ... View more