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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

Authorizing Hive


Hive authorization is about verifying that a user is authorized to perform a particular action. Authentication is about verifying the identity of a user, which is different from the authorization concept.

Hive can be used in the following different ways:

  • HCatalog API: Hive's HCatalog API is used to access Hive by many other frameworks, such as Apache Pig, MapReduce, Facebook Presto, Spark SQL, and Cloudera Impala. Using Hcatalog API, the users have direct access to HDFS data and Hive metadata. Hive metadata is directly accessible using the metastore server API.

  • Hive Command Line Interface (CLI): Using Hive CLI also, users have direct access to HDFS data and Hive metadata. Hive CLI directly interacts with the Hive metastore server. Currently, Hive CLI don't support rich authorization. In next versions of Hive, Hive CLI's implementation will be changed to provide better security, and also Hive CLI will interact with HiveSerer2 rather than directly interacting with the metastore...