How to load xml file into Hive

Question

Im working on Hive tables im having the following problem. I am having more than 1 billion of xml files in my HDFS. What i want to do is, Each xml file having the 4 differe

Answer 1

You have several options:

• Load the XML into a Hive table with a string column, one per row (e.g. CREATE TABLE xmlfiles (id int, xmlfile string). Then use an XPath UDF to do work on the XML.
• Since you know the XPath's of what you want (e.g. //section1), follow the instructions in the second half of this tutorial to ingest directly into Hive via XPath.
• Map your XML to Avro as described here because a SerDe exists for seamless Avro-to-Hive mapping.
• Use XPath to store your data in a regular text file in HDFS and then ingest that into Hive.

It depends on your level of experience and comfort with these approaches.