Question

Point out the correct statement.

(a) Avro Fixed type should be defined in Hive as lists of tiny ints

(b) Avro Bytes type should be defined in Hive as lists of tiny ints

(c) Avro Enum type should be defined in Hive as strings

(d) All of the mentioned

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This question is from Querying Data with HiveQL in portion Hive and HBase of Hadoop

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) Avro Bytes type should be defined in Hive as lists of tiny ints

Easiest explanation: The AvroSerde will convert these to Bytes during the saving process.