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To use Parquet with Hive 0.10-0.12 you must download the Parquet Hive package from the Parquet project. You want the parquet-hive-bundle jar in  in Maven Central.

Hive 0.13

Native Parquet support is pending for 0.13 via HIVE-5783.

Introduction to Parquet

Parquet is an ecosystem wide columnar format for Hadoop. At the time of this writing it supports:

Engines

• Apache Hive
• Apache Drill
• Cloudera Impala
• Apache Crunch
• Apache Pig
• Cascading

Data description

• Apache Avro
• Apache Thrift
• Google Protocol Buffers

For the latest information on Parquet formats and data description, please visit the Parquet-MR projects feature matrix.TODO

File Format

TODOThe parquet project has an in-depth description of the format including motivations and diagrams.

Hive QL Syntax

TODO

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Hive 0.10 - 0.12

CREATE TABLE parquet_test (
 id int,
 str string,
 mp MAP<STRING,STRING>,
 lst ARRAY<STRING>,
 strct STRUCT<A:STRING,B:STRING>) 
PARTITIONED BY (part string)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'parquet.hive.serde.ParquetHiveSerDe'
 STORED AS
 INPUTFORMAT 'parquet.hive.DeprecatedParquetInputFormat'
 OUTPUTFORMAT 'parquet.hive.DeprecatedParquetOutputFormat';

Hive 0.13

CREATE TABLE parquet_test (
 id int,
 str string,
 mp MAP<STRING,STRING>,
 lst ARRAY<STRING>,
 strct STRUCT<A:STRING,B:STRING>) 
PARTITIONED BY (part string)
STORED AS PARQUET;