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Apache Hive Cookbook

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Apache Hive Cookbook

Overview of this book

Hive was developed by Facebook and later open sourced in Apache community. Hive provides SQL like interface to run queries on Big Data frameworks. Hive provides SQL like syntax also called as HiveQL that includes all SQL capabilities like analytical functions which are the need of the hour in today’s Big Data world. This book provides you easy installation steps with different types of metastores supported by Hive. This book has simple and easy to learn recipes for configuring Hive clients and services. You would also learn different Hive optimizations including Partitions and Bucketing. The book also covers the source code explanation of latest Hive version. Hive Query Language is being used by other frameworks including spark. Towards the end you will cover integration of Hive with these frameworks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Apache Hive Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Running Hive


Let's see how to run Hive from the command-line.

Getting ready

Once you have the binaries of Hive either compiled or downloaded, you need to configure a metastore for Hive where it keeps information about different entities. Once that is configured, start Hive metastore and HiveServer2 to access the entities from different clients.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to start different components of Hive on a node:

  1. Run Hive CLI:

    $HIVE_HOME/bin/hive
    
  2. Run HiveServer2 and Beeline:

    $HIVE_HOME/bin/hiveserver2
    $HIVE_HOME/bin/beeline -u jdbc:Hive2://$HiveServer2_HOST:$HiveServer2_PORT
    
  3. Run HCatalog and start up the HCatalog server:

    $HIVE_HOME/hcatalog/sbin/hcat_server.sh
    
  4. Run the HCatalog CLI:

    $HIVE_HOME/hcatalog/bin/hcat
    
  5. Run WebHCat:

    $HIVE_HOME/hcatalog/sbin/webhcat_server.sh