HCatalog IO

An HCatalogIO is a transform for reading and writing data to an HCatalog managed source.

Reading using HCatalogIO

To configure an HCatalog source, you must specify a metastore URI and a table name. Other optional parameters are database and filter.

For example:

Map<String, String> configProperties = new HashMap<String, String>();
configProperties.put("hive.metastore.uris","thrift://metastore-host:port");
pipeline
  .apply(HCatalogIO.read()
  .withConfigProperties(configProperties)
  .withDatabase("default") //optional, assumes default if none specified
  .withTable("employee")
  .withFilter(filterString)) //optional, may be specified if the table is partitioned

  # The Beam SDK for Python does not support HCatalogIO.

Writing using HCatalogIO

To configure an HCatalog sink, you must specify a metastore URI and a table name. Other optional parameters are database, partition and batchsize. The destination table should exist beforehand as the transform will not create a new table if missing.

For example:

Map<String, String> configProperties = new HashMap<String, String>();
configProperties.put("hive.metastore.uris","thrift://metastore-host:port");

pipeline
  .apply(...)
  .apply(HCatalogIO.write()
    .withConfigProperties(configProperties)
    .withDatabase("default") //optional, assumes default if none specified
    .withTable("employee")
    .withPartition(partitionValues) //optional, may be specified if the table is partitioned
    .withBatchSize(1024L)) //optional, assumes a default batch size of 1024 if none specified

  # The Beam SDK for Python does not support HCatalogIO.

Using older versions of HCatalog (1.x)

HCatalogIO is built for Apache HCatalog versions 2 and up and will not work out of the box for older versions of HCatalog. The following illustrates a workaround to work with Hive 1.1.

Include the following Hive 1.2 jars in the uber jar you build. The 1.2 jars provide the necessary methods for Beam while remain compatible with Hive 1.1.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.beam</groupId>
    <artifactId>beam-sdks-java-io-hcatalog</artifactId>
    <version>${beam.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hive.hcatalog</groupId>
    <artifactId>hive-hcatalog-core</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hive</groupId>
    <artifactId>hive-metastore</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hive</groupId>
    <artifactId>hive-exec</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hive</groupId>
    <artifactId>hive-common</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>

Relocate only the following hive packages:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-shade-plugin.version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
        <filters>
            <filter>
                <artifact>*:*</artifact>
                <excludes>
                    <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
                    <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
                    <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
                </excludes>
            </filter>
        </filters>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
                <shadedClassifierName>shaded</shadedClassifierName>
                <transformers>
                    <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
                </transformers>
                <relocations>
                    <!-- Important: Do not relocate org.apache.hadoop.hive -->
                    <relocation>
                        <pattern>org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf</pattern>
                        <shadedPattern>h12.org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf</shadedPattern>
                    </relocation>
                    <relocation>
                        <pattern>org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql</pattern>
                        <shadedPattern>h12.org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql</shadedPattern>
                    </relocation>
                    <relocation>
                        <pattern>org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore</pattern>
                        <shadedPattern>h12.org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore</shadedPattern>
                    </relocation>
                </relocations>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

This has been testing to read SequenceFile and ORCFile file backed tables running with Beam 2.4.0 on Spark 2.3 / YARN in a Cloudera CDH 5.12.2 managed environment.