I am using spark dataframe writer to write the data in internal hive tables in parquet format in IBM Cloud Object Storage.
So , my hive metastore is in HDP cluster and I am running the spark job from the HDP cluster. This spark job writes the data to the IBM COS in parquet format.
This is how I am starting the spark session
SparkSession session = SparkSession.builder().appName("ParquetReadWrite")
.config("hive.metastore.uris", "<thrift_url>")
.config("spark.sql.sources.bucketing.enabled", true)
.enableHiveSupport()
.master("yarn").getOrCreate();
session.sparkContext().hadoopConfiguration().set("fs.cos.mpcos.iam.api.key",credentials.get(ConnectionConstants.COS_APIKEY));
session.sparkContext().hadoopConfiguration().set("fs.cos.mpcos.iam.service.id",credentials.get(ConnectionConstants.COS_SERVICE_ID));
session.sparkContext().hadoopConfiguration().set("fs.cos.mpcos.endpoint",credentials.get(ConnectionConstants.COS_ENDPOINT));
The issue that I am facing is that when I partition the data and store it (via partitionBy) I am unable to access the data directly from spark sql
spark.sql("select * from partitioned_table").show
To fetch the data from the partitioned table , I have to load the dataframe and register it as a temp table and then query it.
The above issue does not occur when the table is not partitioned.
The code to write the data is this
dfWithSchema.orderBy(sortKey).write()
.partitionBy("somekey")
.mode("append")
.format("parquet")
.option("path",PARQUET_PATH+tableName )
.saveAsTable(tableName);
Any idea why the the direct query approach is not working for the partitioned tables in COS/Parquet ?
To read the partitioned table(created by Spark), you need to give the absolute path of the table as below.
selected_Data=spark.read.format("parquet").option("header","false").load("hdfs/path/loc.db/partition_table")
To filter out it further, please try the below approach.
selected_Data.where(col("column_name")=='col_value').show()
This issue occurs when the property hive.metastore.try.direct.sql is set to true on the HiveMetastore configurations and the SparkSQL query is run over a non STRING type partition column.
For Spark, it is recommended to create tables with partition columns of STRING type.
If you are getting below error message while filtering the hive partitioned table in spark.
Caused by: MetaException(message:Filtering is supported only on partition keys of type string)
recreate your hive partitioned table with partition column datatype as string, then you would be able to access the data directly from spark sql.
else you have to specify the absolute path of your hdfs location to get the data incase your partitioned column has been defined as varchar.
selected_Data=spark.read.format("parquet").option("header","false").load("hdfs/path/loc.db/partition_table")
However I was not able to understand, why it's differentiating in between a varchar and string datatype for partition column
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I am trying to understand the spark DataFrame API method called saveAsTable.
I have following question
If I simply write a dataframe using saveAsTable API
df7.write.saveAsTable("t1"), (assuming t1 did not exist earlier), will the newly created table be a hive table which can be read outside spark using Hive QL ?
Does spark also create some non-hive table (which are created using saveAsTable API but can not be read outside spark using HiveQL)?
How can check if a table is Hive Table or Non-Hive table ?
(I am new to big data processing, so pardon me if question is not phrased properly)
Yes. Newly created table will be hive table and can be queried from Hive CLI(Only if the DataFrame is created from single input HDFS path i.e. from non-partitioned single input HDFS path).
Below is the documentation comment in DataFrameWriter.scala class. Documentation link
When the DataFrame is created from a non-partitioned
HadoopFsRelation with a single input path, and the data source
provider can be mapped to an existing Hive builtin SerDe (i.e. ORC and
Parquet), the table is persisted in a Hive compatible format, which
means other systems like Hive will be able to read this table.
Otherwise, the table is persisted in a Spark SQL specific format.
Yes, you can do. You table can be partitioned by a column, but can not use bucketing (its a problem between spark and hive).
I have a simple Hive-External table which is created on top of S3 (Files are in CSV format). When I run the hive query it shows all records and partitions.
However when I use the same table in Spark ( where the Spark SQL has a where condition on the partition column) it does not show that a partition filter is applied. However for a Hive Managed table , Spark is able to use the information of partitions and apply the partition filter.
Is there any flag or setting that can help me make use of partitions of Hive external tables in Spark ? Thanks.
Update :
For some reason, only the spark plan is not showing the Partition Filters. However, when you look at the data loaded its only loading the data needed from the partitions.
Ex: Where rating=0 , loads only one file of 1 MB, when I don't have filter its reads all 3 partition for 3 MB
tl; dr set the following before the running sql for external table
spark.sql("set spark.sql.hive.convertMetastoreOrc=true")
The difference in behaviour is not because of extenal/managed table.
The behaviour depends on two factors
1. Where the table was created(Hive or Spark)
2. File format (I believe it is ORC in this case, from the screen capture)
Where the table was created(Hive or Spark)
If the table was create using Spark APIs, it is considered as Datasource table.
If the table was created usng HiveQL, it is considered as Hive native table.
The metadata of both these tables are store in Hive metastore, the only difference is in the provider field of TBLPROPERTIES of the tables(describe extended <tblName>). The value of the property is orcor empty in Spark table and hive for a Hive.
How spark uses this information
When provider is not hive(datasource table), Spark uses its native way of processing the data.
If provider is hive, Spark uses Hive code to process the data.
Fileformat
Spark gives config flag to instruct the engine to use Datasource way of processing the data for the floowing file formats = Orc and Parquet
Flags:
Orc
val CONVERT_METASTORE_ORC = buildConf("spark.sql.hive.convertMetastoreOrc")
.doc("When set to true, the built-in ORC reader and writer are used to process " +
"ORC tables created by using the HiveQL syntax, instead of Hive serde.")
.booleanConf
.createWithDefault(true)
Parquet
val CONVERT_METASTORE_PARQUET = buildConf("spark.sql.hive.convertMetastoreParquet")
.doc("When set to true, the built-in Parquet reader and writer are used to process " +
"parquet tables created by using the HiveQL syntax, instead of Hive serde.")
.booleanConf
.createWithDefault(true)
I also ran into this kind of problem having multiple joins of internal and external tables.
None of the tricks work including：
spark.sql("set spark.sql.hive.convertMetastoreParquet=false")
spark.sql("set spark.sql.hive.metastorePartitionPruning=true")
spark.sql("set spark.sql.hive.caseSensitiveInferenceMode=NEVER_INFER")
anyone who knows how to solve this problem.
I am trying to create a spark dataframe on a existing HBase Table(HBase is secured via Kerberos). I need to perform some spark Sql operations on this table.
I have tried creating a RDD on a Hbase table but unable to convert it into dataframe.
You can create hive external table with HBase storage handler and then use that table to run your spark-sql queries.
Creating the hive external table:
CREATE TABLE foo(rowkey STRING, a STRING, b STRING)
STORED BY ‘org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler’
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (‘hbase.columns.mapping’ = ‘:key,f:c1,f:c2’)
TBLPROPERTIES (‘hbase.table.name’ = ‘bar’);
Spark-sql:
val df=spark.sql("SELECT * FROM foo WHERE …")
Note: Here spark is a SparkSession
I have a table which has some missing partions. When I call it on hive it works fine
SELECT *
FROM my_table
but when call it from pyspark (v. 2.3.0) it fails with message Input path does not exist: hdfs://path/to/partition. The spark code I am running is just naive:
spark = ( SparkSession
.builder
.appName("prueba1")
.master("yarn")
.config("spark.sql.hive.verifyPartitionPath", "false")
.enableHiveSupport()
.getOrCreate())
spark.table('some_schema.my_table').show(10)
the config("spark.sql.hive.verifyPartitionPath", "false") has been proposed is
this question but seems to not work fine for me
Is there any way I can configure SparkSession so I can get rid of these. I am afraid that in the future more partitions will miss, so a hardcode solution is not possible
This error occurs when partitioned data dropped from HDFS i.e not using Hive commands to drop the partition.
If the data dropped from HDFS directly Hive doesn't know about the dropped the partition, when we query hive table it still looks for the directory and the directory doesn't exists in HDFS it results file not found exception.
To fix this issue we need to drop the partition associated with the directory in Hive table also by using
alter table <db_name>.<table_name> drop partition(<partition_col_name>=<partition_value>);
Then hive drops the partition from the metadata this is the only way to drop the metadata from the hive table if we dropped the partition directory from HDFS.
msck repair table doesn't drop the partitions instead only adds the new partitions if the new partition got added into HDFS.
The correct way to avoid these kind of issues in future drop the partitions by using Hive drop partition commands.
Does the other way around, .config("spark.sql.hive.verifyPartitionPath", "true") work for you? I have just managed to load data using spark-sql with this setting, while one of the partition paths from Hive was empty, and partition still existed in Hive metastore. Though there are caveats - it seems it takes significantly more time to load data compared to when this setting it set to false.
So we are trying to create a Hive table with ORC format bucketed and enabled for transactions using the below statement
create table orctablecheck ( id int,name string) clustered by (sno) into 3 buckets stored as orc TBLPROPERTIES ( 'transactional'='true')
The table is getting created in Hive and also Reflects in Beeline both in the Metastore as well as Spark SQL(which we have configured to run on top of Hive JDBC)
We are now inserting data into this table via Hive. However we see after insertion the data doesnt reflect in Spark SQL. It only reflects correctly in Hive.
The table only shows the data in the table if we restart the Thrift Server.
Is the transaction attribute set on your table? I observed that hive transaction storage structure do not work with spark yet. You can confirm this by looking at the transactional attribute in the output of below command in hive console.
desc extended <tablename> ;
If you'd need to access transactional table, consider doing a major compaction and then try accessing the tables
ALTER TABLE <tablename> COMPACT 'major';
I created a transactional table in Hive, and stored data in it using Spark (records 1,2,3) and Hive (record 4).
After major compaction,
I can see all 4 records in Hive (using beeline)
only records 1,2,3 in spark (using spark-shell)
unable to update records 1,2,3 in Hive
update to record 4 in Hive is ok