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Use corc to read and write data in the Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) file format in your Cascading applications. The reading of ACID datasets is also supported.

Start using

You can obtain corc from Maven Central :

Cascading Dependencies

Corc has been built and tested against Cascading 3.3.0.

Hive Dependencies

Corc is built with Hive 2.3.4. Several dependencies will need to be included when using Corc:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.hive</groupId>
  <artifactId>hive-exec</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.4</version>
  <classifier>core</classifier>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.hive</groupId>
  <artifactId>hive-serde</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.esotericsoftware.kryo</groupId>
  <artifactId>kryo</artifactId>
  <version>2.22</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
  <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
  <version>2.5.0</version>
</dependency>

Overview

Supported types

Constructing an OrcFile instance

OrcFile provides two public constructors; one for sourcing and one for sinking. However, these are provided to be more flexible for others who may wish to extend the class. It is advised to construct an instance via the SourceBuilder and SinkBuilder classes.

SourceBuilder

Create a builder:

SourceBuilder builder = OrcFile.source();

Specify the fields that should be read. If the declared schema is a subset of the complete schema, then column projection will occur:

builder.declaredFields(fields);
// or
builder.columns(structTypeInfo);
// or
builder.columns(structTypeInfoString);

Specify the complete schema of the underlying ORC Files. This is only required for reading ORC Files that back a transactional Hive table. The default behaviour should be to obtain the schema from the ORC Files being read:

builder.schemaFromFile();
// or
builder.schema(fields);
// or
builder.schema(structTypeInfo);
// or
builder.schema(structTypeInfoString);

ORC Files support predicate pushdown. This allows whole row groups to be skipped if they do not contain any rows that match the given SearchArgument:

Fields message = new Fields("message", String.class);
SearchArgument searchArgument = SearchArgumentFactory.newBuilder()
    .startAnd()
    .equals(message, "hello")
    .end()
    .build();

builder.searchArgument(searchArgument);

When passing objects to the SearchArgument.Builder, care should be taken to choose the correct type:

When reading ORC Files that back a transactional Hive table, include the VirtualColumn#ROWID ("ROW__ID") virtual column. The column will be prepended to the record's Fields:

builder.prependRowId();

Finally, build the OrcFile:

OrcFile orcFile = builder.build();

SinkBuilder

OrcFile orcFile = OrcFile.sink()
    .schema(schema)
    .build();

The schema parameter can be one of Fields, StructTypeInfo or the String representation of the StructTypeInfo. When providing a Fields instance, care must be taken when deciding how best to specify the types as there is no one-to-one bidirectional mapping between Cascading types and Hive types. The TypeInfo is able to represent richer, more complex types. Consider your ORC File schema and the mappings to Fields types carefully.

Constructing a StructTypeInfo instance

List<String> names = new ArrayList<>();
names.add("col0");
names.add("col1");

List<TypeInfo> typeInfos = new ArrayList<>();
typeInfos.add(TypeInfoFactory.stringTypeInfo);
typeInfos.add(TypeInfoFactory.longTypeInfo);

StructTypeInfo structTypeInfo = (StructTypeInfo) TypeInfoFactory.getStructTypeInfo(names, typeInfos);

or...

String typeString = "struct<col0:string,col1:bigint>";

StructTypeInfo structTypeInfo = (StructTypeInfo) TypeInfoUtils.getTypeInfoFromTypeString(typeString);

or, via the convenience builder...

StructTypeInfo structTypeInfo = new StructTypeInfoBuilder()
    .add("col0", TypeInfoFactory.stringTypeInfo)
    .add("col1", TypeInfoFactory.longTypeInfo)
    .build();

Reading transactional Hive tables

Corc also supports the reading of ACID datasets that underpin transactional Hive tables. However, for this to work effectively with an active Hive table you must provide your own lock management. We intend to make this functionality available in the cascading-hive project. When reading the data you may optionally include the virtual RecordIdentifer column, also known as the ROW__ID column, with one of the following approaches:

1. Add a field named 'ROW__ID' to your Fields definition. This must be of type org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.RecordIdentifier. For convenience you can use the constant OrcFile#ROW__ID with some fields arithmetic: Fields myFields = Fields.join(OrcFile.ROW__ID, myFields);.
2. Use the OrcFile.source().prependRowId() option. Be sure to exclude the RecordIdentifer column from your typeInfo instance. The ROW__ID field will be added to your tuple stream automatically.

Usage

OrcFile can be used with Hfs, just like TextDelimited.

OrcFile orcFile = ...
String path = ...
Hfs hfs = new Hfs(orcFile, path);

Credits

Created by Dave Maughan & Elliot West, with thanks to: Patrick Duin, James Grant & Adrian Woodhead.

Legal

This project is available under the Apache 2.0 License.

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