Chapter 2. Services in Hive

In the previous chapter, you learned how we could install Hive with different metastore configurations. We also have gone through Hive clients and Hive services in brief.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes in detail:

  • Introducing HiveServer2
  • Understanding HiveServer2 properties
  • Configuring HiveServer2 high availability
  • Using HiveServer2 clients
  • Introducing the Hive metastore service
  • Configuring high availability of metastore service
  • Introducing Hue

Introducing HiveServer2

HiveServer2 is an enhancement of HiveServer provided in earlier versions of Hive. The major limitations of HiveServer related to concurrency and authentication is resolved in HiveServer2. HiveServer2 is based on Thrift RPC. It supports multiple ...

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