set hive.support.concurrency=true; set hive.txn.manager=org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lockmgr.DbTxnManager; set hive.enforce.bucketing=true; create table acid_ivnp(ti tinyint, si smallint, i int, bi bigint, f float, d double, de decimal(5,2), t timestamp, dt date, b boolean, s string, vc varchar(128), ch char(12)) clustered by (i) into 2 buckets stored as orc TBLPROPERTIES ('transactional'='true'); insert into table acid_ivnp values (1, 257, 65537, 4294967297, 3.14, 3.141592654, 109.23, '2014-08-25 17:21:30.0', '2014-08-25', true, 'mary had a little lamb', 'ring around the rosie', 'red'), (null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null), (3, 25, 6553, null, 0.14, 1923.141592654, 1.2301, '2014-08-24 17:21:30.0', '2014-08-26', false, 'its fleece was white as snow', 'a pocket full of posies', 'blue' ); select * from acid_ivnp order by ti;