Creating hive table using parquet file metadata

Question

I wrote a DataFrame as parquet file. And, I would like to read the file using Hive using the metadata from parquet.

Output from writing parquet write

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Answer 1

Actually, Impala supports

CREATE TABLE LIKE PARQUET

(no columns section altogether):

http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/documentation/archive/impala/2-x/2-1-x/topics/impala_create_table.html

Tags of your question have "hive" and "spark" and I don't see this is implemented in Hive, but in case you use CDH, it may be what you were looking for.