hdfs

Creates a table from files in HDFS. This table function is similar to url and file ones.

hdfs(URI, format, structure)

Input parameters

• URI — The relative URI to the file in HDFS. Path to file support following globs in readonly mode: *, ?, {abc,def} and {N..M} where N, M — numbers, `'abc', 'def' — strings.
• format — The format of the file.
• structure — Structure of the table. Format 'column1_name column1_type, column2_name column2_type, ...'.

Returned value

A table with the specified structure for reading or writing data in the specified file.

Example

Table from hdfs://hdfs1:9000/test and selection of the first two rows from it:

SELECT *
FROM hdfs('hdfs://hdfs1:9000/test', 'TSV', 'column1 UInt32, column2 UInt32, column3 UInt32')
LIMIT 2

┌─column1─┬─column2─┬─column3─┐
│       1 │       2 │       3 │
│       3 │       2 │       1 │
└─────────┴─────────┴─────────┘

Globs in path

Paths may use globbing. Files must match the whole path pattern, not only the suffix or prefix.

• * — Represents arbitrarily many characters except / but including the empty string.
• ? — Represents an arbitrary single character.
• {some_string,another_string,yet_another_one} — Substitutes any of strings 'some_string', 'another_string', 'yet_another_one'. The strings can contain the / symbol.
• {N..M} — Represents any number >= N and <= M.

Constructions with {} are similar to the remote and file table functions.

Example

1. Suppose that we have several files with following URIs on HDFS:

• ‘hdfs://hdfs1:9000/some_dir/some_file_1’
• ‘hdfs://hdfs1:9000/some_dir/some_file_2’
• ‘hdfs://hdfs1:9000/some_dir/some_file_3’
• ‘hdfs://hdfs1:9000/another_dir/some_file_1’
• ‘hdfs://hdfs1:9000/another_dir/some_file_2’
• ‘hdfs://hdfs1:9000/another_dir/some_file_3’

2. Query the amount of rows in these files:

SELECT count(*)
FROM hdfs('hdfs://hdfs1:9000/{some,another}_dir/some_file_{1..3}', 'TSV', 'name String, value UInt32')

3. Query the amount of rows in all files of these two directories:

SELECT count(*)
FROM hdfs('hdfs://hdfs1:9000/{some,another}_dir/*', 'TSV', 'name String, value UInt32')

note

If your listing of files contains number ranges with leading zeros, use the construction with braces for each digit separately or use ?.

Example

Query the data from files named file000, file001, ... , file999:

SELECT count(*)
FROM hdfs('hdfs://hdfs1:9000/big_dir/file{0..9}{0..9}{0..9}', 'CSV', 'name String, value UInt32')

Virtual Columns

• _path — Path to the file. Type: LowCardinalty(String).
• _file — Name of the file. Type: LowCardinalty(String).
• _size — Size of the file in bytes. Type: Nullable(UInt64). If the size is unknown, the value is NULL.

Storage Settings

• hdfs_truncate_on_insert - allows to truncate file before insert into it. Disabled by default.
• hdfs_create_multiple_files - allows to create a new file on each insert if format has suffix. Disabled by default.
• hdfs_skip_empty_files - allows to skip empty files while reading. Disabled by default.
• ignore_access_denied_multidirectory_globs - allows to ignore permission denied errors for multi-directory globs.

See Also

• Virtual columns