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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

Authenticating Hive


Authentication is a process of verifying the identity of a user. There are different ways of authentication for different Hive clients. Hive CLI is currently not recommended to use as it is not safer for data security purposes, but still you can enable Kerberos authentication in Hive.

HiveServer2 is a server interface that is used to run queries against Hive and retrieve the result. It is recommended to always use HiveServer2. Most of the organizations are widely using HiveServer2 with its various security features.

How to do it…

HiveServer2 supports the following authentication options:

  • Anonymous with SASL

  • Anonymous without SASL

  • Kerberos (GSSAPI)

  • LDAP

  • PAM

  • Custom

Authentication can be configured using the property hive.server2.authentication. This property defines the authentication mode to be used for HiveServer2. The default value of this property is NONE so no authentication is enabled, and it uses plain Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL).

Anonymous with SASL (default...