Spark Open Source Commands
This section describes the open source Spark SQL syntax supported by DLI. For details about the syntax, parameters, and examples, see Spark SQL Syntax.
Function |
Syntax Example |
DLI Spark 2.4.5 |
DLI Spark 3.3.1 |
---|---|---|---|
Creating a database |
CREATE DATABASE testDB; |
Supported |
Supported |
Creating a DLI table |
create table if not exists testDB.testTable1( id int, age int, money double ); |
Supported |
Supported |
Creating an OBS table |
create table if not exists testDB.testTable2( id int, age int, money double ) LOCATION 'obs://bucketName/filePath' partitioned by (dt string) row format delimited fields terminated by ',' STORED as TEXTFILE; |
Supported |
Supported |
Inserting test data |
insert into table testDB.testTable2 values (1, 18, 3.14, "20240101" ), (2, 18, 3.15, "20240102" ); |
Supported |
Supported |
Changing database attributes |
ALTER DATABASE testDB SET DBPROPERTIES ('Edited-by' = 'John'); |
Not supported |
Not supported |
Changing the path for storing database files on OBS |
ALTER DATABASE testDB SET LOCATION 'obs://bucketName/filePath'; |
Not supported |
Not supported |
Changing a table name |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 RENAME TO testDB.testTable101; |
Supported |
Supported |
Changing the name of a partition in a table |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable2 PARTITION ( dt='20240101') RENAME TO PARTITION ( dt='20240103'); It only supports renaming partitions of tables stored in OBS, and the storage path of the table in OBS will not change. |
Supported |
Supported |
Adding a column |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 ADD COLUMNS (name string); |
Supported |
Supported |
Dropping a column |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 DROP columns (money); |
Not supported |
Not supported |
Changing the name of a column |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 RENAME COLUMN age TO years_of_age; |
Not supported |
Not supported |
Modifying column comments |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 ALTER COLUMN age COMMENT "new comment"; |
Not supported |
Supported |
Replacing a specified column |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 REPLACE COLUMNS (name string, ID int COMMENT 'new comment'); |
Not supported |
Not supported |
Customizing table attributes |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 SET TBLPROPERTIES ('aaa' = 'bbb'); |
Supported |
Supported |
Adding or modifying table comments |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 SET TBLPROPERTIES ('comment' = 'test'); |
Supported |
Not supported |
Changing the storage format of a table |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 SET fileformat csv; |
Not supported |
Not supported |
Deleting a table attribute |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 UNSET TBLPROPERTIES ('test'); |
Supported |
Supported |
Deleting table comments |
ALTER TABLE testDB.testTable1 UNSET TBLPROPERTIES ('comment'); |
Supported |
Supported |
Displaying column information |
DESCRIBE database_name.table_name col_name; Example: DESCRIBE testDB.testTable1 id; |
Supported |
Supported |
Displaying column information |
DESCRIBE table_name table_name.col_name; Example: DESCRIBE testTable1 testTable1.id; It only supports viewing the column information for tables in the current database. |
Supported |
Supported |
Returning metadata information of a query statement |
DESCRIBE QUERY SELECT age, sum(age) FROM testDB.testTable1 GROUP BY age; |
Not supported |
Supported |
Returning metadata information of inserted data |
DESCRIBE QUERY VALUES(100, 10, 10000.20D) AS testTable1(id, age, money); |
Not supported |
Supported |
Returning metadata information of a table |
DESCRIBE QUERY TABLE testTable1; |
Not supported |
Supported |
Returning metadata information of a column in a table |
DESCRIBE FROM testTable1 SELECT age; |
Not supported |
Supported |
Returning the table creation statements for a table |
SHOW CREATE TABLE testDB.testTable1 AS SERDE; When executing this statement in Spark 3.3.1, it only applies to query the table creation statements for Hive tables. |
Not supported |
Supported |
Returning the table creation statements for a table |
SHOW CREATE TABLE testDB.testTable1; |
Supported |
Supported |
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