Hive

Hive source connector

Description

Read data from Hive.

tip

In order to use this connector, You must ensure your spark/flink cluster already integrated hive. The tested hive version is 2.3.9.

If you use SeaTunnel Engine, You need put seatunnel-hadoop3-3.1.4-uber.jar and hive-exec-2.3.9.jar in $SEATUNNEL_HOME/lib/ dir.

Key features

• batch
• stream
• exactly-once

Read all the data in a split in a pollNext call. What splits are read will be saved in snapshot.

• schema projection
• parallelism
• support user-defined split
• file format
  • text
  • csv
  • parquet
  • orc
  • json

Options

name	type	required	default value
table_name	string	yes	-
metastore_uri	string	yes	-
kerberos_principal	string	no	-
kerberos_keytab_path	string	no	-
hdfs_site_path	string	no	-
read_partitions	list	no	-
read_columns	list	no	-
common-options		no	-

table_name [string]

Target Hive table name eg: db1.table1

metastore_uri [string]

Hive metastore uri

hdfs_site_path [string]

The path of hdfs-site.xml, used to load ha configuration of namenodes

read_partitions [list]

The target partitions that user want to read from hive table, if user does not set this parameter, it will read all the data from hive table.

Tips: Every partition in partitions list should have the same directory depth. For example, a hive table has two partitions: par1 and par2, if user sets it like as the following: read_partitions = [par1=xxx, par1=yyy/par2=zzz], it is illegal

kerberos_principal [string]

The principal of kerberos authentication

kerberos_keytab_path [string]

The keytab file path of kerberos authentication

read_columns [list]

The read column list of the data source, user can use it to implement field projection.

common options

Source plugin common parameters, please refer to Source Common Options for details

Example

  Hive {
    table_name = "default.seatunnel_orc"
    metastore_uri = "thrift://namenode001:9083"
  }

Changelog

2.2.0-beta 2022-09-26

• Add Hive Source Connector

Next version

• [Improve] Support kerberos authentication (3840)
• Support user-defined partitions (3842)