Migrate Hive table to Iceberg feature

CDP supports table migration from Hive tables to Iceberg tables using ALTER TABLE to set the table properties. You set the storage_handler table property to the Iceberg storage handler.

Impala does not support table migration in this release. The topic "Test driving Iceberg from Impala" shows how to create Iceberg tables from Impala tables.

In-place table migration process

In-place table migration saves time generating Iceberg tables. There is no need to regenerate data files. Only metadata, which points to source data files, is regenerated, as shown in the following diagram:

ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES
('storage_handler'='org.apache.iceberg.mr.hive.HiveIcebergStorageHandler');