Querying Sequence Files

Sequence files are flat files storing binary key value pairs. Drill projects sequence files as table with two columns 'binary_key', 'binary_value'.

Querying sequence file.

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    SELECT *
    FROM dfs.tmp.`simple.seq`
    LIMIT 1;
    +--------------+---------------+
    |  binary_key  | binary_value  |
    +--------------+---------------+
    | [B@70828f46  | [B@b8c765f    |
    +--------------+---------------+

Since simple.seq contains byte serialized strings as keys and values, we can convert them to strings.

    SELECT CONVERT_FROM(binary_key, 'UTF8'), CONVERT_FROM(binary_value, 'UTF8')
    FROM dfs.tmp.`simple.seq`
    LIMIT 1
    ;
    +-----------+-------------+
    |  EXPR$0   |   EXPR$1    |
    +-----------+-------------+
    | key0      |   value0    |
    +-----------+-------------+

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