Maximum Number of Columns in Hive External Tables

Question

I\'m trying to set up Hive on Amazon\'s EMR to pull data from a DynamoDB table and dump it to S3. I\'ve followed the instructions found here, and had success with most of ou

Answer 1

I ran into a similar problem a couple of years ago. If I recall correctly the issue is that hive places a limit on the length of text in the query that it is writing into the database. If you look at the call stack you can probably find out if that variable is configurable and if not where to edit the code.