Create a sample test.txt file:

echo -e "alice miller\t49\t3.15" > student.txt

Upload the new data file to HDFS:

su - $HDFS_USER 
hadoop fs -mkdir -p /user/test/student 
hadoop fs -copyFromLocal student.txt /user/test/student 
hadoop fs -chown hive:hdfs /user/test/student/student.txt 
hadoop fs -chmod 775 /user/test/student/student.txt

Open the Hive command-line shell:

su - $HDFS_USER

Create a table named "student" in Hive:

hive> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE student(name string, age int, gpa double) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t'STORED AS TEXTFILE LOCATION '/user/test/student';

Execute the following query in Hive:

hive> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM student;

If Hive-on-Tez is configured properly, this query should return successful results similar to the following:

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        VERTICES      STATUS  TOTAL  COMPLETED  RUNNING  PENDING  FAILED  KILLED
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Map 1 ..........   SUCCEEDED    117        117        0        0       0       0
Reducer 2 ......   SUCCEEDED      1          1        0        0       0       0
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VERTICES: 02/02  [==========================>>] 100%  ELAPSED TIME: 445.02 s
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Status: DAG finished successfully in 445.02 seconds
Time taken: 909.882 seconds