Using string values in the HBase price table mapped to a hive decimal datatype column in the hive table defaults to decimal(10,0).
My data is visible, but has no decimal places … not very useful.
My input prices come in with different precisions/scales.
That’s why I need to map then to java BigDecimals on the input side.
I know I can store the price value as a string or BigDecimal in the Hbase column
I know I can map the string hbase value to a string hive value.
I need to know if hive can map either the string or binary column value to a useful numeric hive datatype.