Typical Scenario: Exporting Data from Hive to a Relational Database

Scenario

Use Loader to export data from Hive to a relational database.

Prerequisites

Procedure

Setting Basic Job Information

  1. Access the Loader web UI.

    1. Log in to FusionInsight Manager. For details, see Accessing FusionInsight Manager.
    2. Choose Cluster > Name of the desired cluster > Services > Loader.
    3. Click LoaderServer(Node name, Active). The Loader web UI is displayed.
      Figure 1 Loader web UI

  2. Click New Job to go to the Basic Information page and set basic job information.

    Figure 2 Basic Information
    1. Set Name to the name of the job.
    2. Set Type to Export.
    3. Set Group to the group to which the job belongs. No group is created by default. You need to click Add to create a group and click OK to save the created group.
    4. Set Queue to the Yarn queue that executes the job. The default value is root.default.
    5. Set Priority to the priority of the Yarn queue that executes the job. The default value is NORMAL. The options are VERY_LOW, LOW, NORMAL, HIGH, and VERY_HIGH.

  3. In the Connection area, click Add to create a connection, set Connector to generic-jdbc-connector or dedicated database connector (oracle-connector, oracle-partition-connector or mysql-fastpath-connector), set connection parameters, and click Test to verify whether the connection is available. When "Test Success" is displayed, click OK.

    • For connection to relational databases, general database connectors (generic-jdbc-connector) or dedicated database connectors (oracle-connector, oracle-partition-connector, and mysql-fastpath-connector) are available. However, compared with general database connectors, dedicated database connectors perform better in data import and export because they are optimized for specific database types.
    • When mysql-fastpath-connector is used, the mysqldump and mysqlimport commands of MySQL must be available on NodeManagers, and the MySQL client version to which the two commands belong must be compatible with the MySQL server version. If the two commands are unavailable or the versions are incompatible, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/linux-installation-rpm.html. Install the MySQL client applications and tools.
    Table 1 generic-jdbc-connector connection parameters

    Parameter

    Description

    Example Value

    Name

    Specifies the name of a relational database connection.

    dbName

    JDBC Driver Class

    Specifies the name of a Java database connectivity (JDBC) driver class.

    oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver

    JDBC Connection String

    Specifies the JDBC connection string.

    jdbc:oracle:thin:@//10.16.0.1:1521/oradb

    Username

    Specifies the username for connecting to the database.

    omm

    Password

    Specifies the password for connecting to the database.

    xxxx

    JDBC Connection Properties

    JDBC connection attribute. Click Add to manually add the attribute.

    • Name: connection attribute name
    • Value: connection attribute value
    • Name: socketTimeout
    • Value: 20

    Setting Data Source Information

  4. Click Next. On the displayed From page, set Source type to HIVE.

    Table 2 Data source parameters

    Parameter

    Description

    Example Value

    Hive instance

    Specifies the Hive service instance that Loader selects from all available Hive service instances in the cluster. If the selected Hive service instance is not added to the cluster, the Hive job cannot run properly.

    hive

    Quantity

    Specifies the number of maps that are started at the same time in a MapReduce job of a data configuration operation. The value must be less than or equal to 3000.

    20

    Setting Data Transformation

  5. Click Next. On the displayed Transform page, set the transformation operations in the data transformation process. For details about how to select operators and set parameters, see Operator Help and Table 3.

    Table 3 Setting the input and output parameters of the operator

    Input Type

    Export Type

    Hive input

    Table output
    Figure 3 Operator operation procedure

    Setting Data Storage Information and Executing the Job

  6. Click Next. On the displayed To page, set the data storage mode.

    Table 4 Parameter description

    Parameter

    Description

    Example Value

    Schema name

    Specifies the database schema name.

    dbo

    Table name

    Specifies the name of a database table that is used to save the final data of the transmission.

    NOTE:

    Table names can be defined using macros. For details, see Using Macro Definitions in Configuration Items.

    test

    Temporary table

    Specifies the name of a temporary database table that is used to save temporary data during the transmission. The fields in the table must be the same as those in the database specified by Table name.

    NOTE:

    A temporary table is used to prevent dirty data from being generated in the destination table when data is exported to the database. Data is migrated from the temporary table to the destination table only after all data is successfully written to the temporary table. Using temporary tables increases the job execution time.

    tmp_test

  7. Click Save and run to save and run the job.

    Checking the Job Execution Result

  8. Go to the Loader WebUI. When Status is Succeeded, the job is complete.

    Figure 4 Viewing job

Parent topic: Exporting Data