Understanding different components of Hive
Besides the Hive metastore, Hive components could be broadly classified as Hive clients and Hive servers. Hive servers provide interfaces to make the metastore available to external applications and check for user's authorization and authentication, and Hive clients are various applications used to access and execute Hive queries on the Hadoop cluster.
HiveServer
Let's take a look at its various components.
Hive metastore
Hive metastore URIs start a metastore service on the specified port. Metastore provides APIs to query the database, tables, schema, and other entities stored in the RDBMS datastore.
How to do it...
The metastore service starts as a Java process in the backend. You can start the Hive metastore ...
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