-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more -- contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with -- this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. -- The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 -- (the "License") you may not use this file except in compliance with -- the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at -- -- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -- -- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software -- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, -- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. -- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and -- limitations under the License. CREATE table columnTable (key STRING, value STRING) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.columnar.ColumnarSerDe' STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.RCFileInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.RCFileOutputFormat' FROM src INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE columnTable SELECT src.key, src.value LIMIT 10 Deleted hdfs://monster01.sf.cloudera.com:17020/user/hive/warehouse/columntable describe columnTable key string from deserializer value string from deserializer SELECT columnTable.* FROM columnTable ORDER BY columnTable.key 165 val_165 238 val_238 255 val_255 27 val_27 278 val_278 311 val_311 409 val_409 484 val_484 86 val_86 98 val_98