Create / import hive table using Sqoop

Question

When I use below import command it allows me to create table and import data from mysql to Hive and I can see the table "widgets" in Hive.

sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hadoopguide --table widgets --username <username> --password <password> --split-by id -m 1 --hive-import;

But whenever I use below "create-hive-table" command, I get an error.

Command:

sqoop create-hive-table --connect jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hadoopguide --table widgets --username <username> --password <password> --fields-terminated-by ',';

Error:

17/03/14 21:30:21 INFO hive.HiveImport: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient 17/03/14 21:30:21 ERROR tool.CreateHiveTableTool: Encountered IOException running create table job: java.io.IOException: Hive exited with status 1 at org.apache.sqoop.hive.HiveImport.executeExternalHiveScript(HiveImport.java:385) at org.apache.sqoop.hive.HiveImport.executeScript(HiveImport.java:335) at org.apache.sqoop.hive.HiveImport.importTable(HiveImport.java:239) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.CreateHiveTableTool.run(CreateHiveTableTool.java:58) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:145) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:181) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:220) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:229) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:238)

Can anyone please assist me why I am getting this error. Any input from your side will be great :-) .

Answer 1

Is you Hadoop Services running.

$ start-all.sh

hive> show database;