NexR Hive UDFs

About

NexR Hive UDFs is a collection of user defined functions for Hive.

License

Apache licensed.

Quickstart

$ git clone https://github.com/nexr/hive-udf.git
$ cd hive-udf
$ mvn clean package
or
$ ant -Dhive.install.dir=../hive/build/dist clean package

Run the tests using Hive PDK

$ ant -Dhive.install.dir=../hive/build/dist test

Install and Configurations

hive-site.xml

<property>
    <name>hive.aux.jars.path</name>
    <value>file:///path/to/nexr-hive-udf-[VERSION].jar</value>
</property>

Registering the UDFs

hive> add jar /path/to/nexr-hive-udf-[VERSION].jar;
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION nvl AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFNVL';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION decode AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFDecode';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION nvl2 AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFNVL2';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION str_to_date AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.UDFStrToDate';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION date_format AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.UDFDateFormat';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION to_char AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.UDFToChar';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION instr4 AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFInstr';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION chr AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.UDFChr';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION last_day AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.UDFLastDay';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION greatest AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFGreatest';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION to_number AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFToNumber';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION trunc AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFTrunc';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION rank AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFRank';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION row_number AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFRowNumber';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION sysdate AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.UDFSysDate';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION populate AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDTFPopulate';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION dedup AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDAFDedup';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION lnnvl AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.GenericUDFLnnvl';
hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION substr AS 'com.nexr.platform.hive.udf.UDFSubstrForOracle';

Usage of Hive UDFs

See the details at Project Wiki.

References

• Apache Hive
• Oracle 11g SQL Functions