How to create output in gzip files in Hive

Sometimes its required to output hive results in gzip files to reduce the file size so that the files can be transferred over network.

To do this, run the following commands in hive before running the query. The following code sets these options and then runs the hive query. The output of this hive query will be stored in gzip files.

set mapred.output.compress=true;
set hive.exec.compress.output=true;
set mapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec;
set io.compression.codecs=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec;
INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY 'hive_out' select * from web_requests w ;"