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Hive is a data warehouse architecture built on the Hadoop file system, offering various features for data warehouse management, including ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools, data storage management, and capabilities for querying and analyzing large datasets. Hive also defines a SQL-like development language that allows users to map structured data files to a database table and provides simple SQL query features.
In EMR, Hive is installed in the /usr/local/service/hive path under EMR nodes.
For more details about Hive, see the Apache Hive Official Website.
Hive Service Roles
Role Name | Description |
HiveServer2 | The ThriftServer service of Hive is used to receive client query requests, perform SQL compilation and parsing, and support multiple client concurrency and authentication. An EMR cluster can deploy multiple HiveServer2 instances, which supports scaling to Router nodes and configuring load balancing. |
Hive MetaStore | Hive’s metadata service maintains metadata information for Hive databases and Hive tables. The metadata management capability of this module is also integrated with engines such as Spark and Trino. An EMR cluster can deploy multiple Hive MetaStore instances, with support for expansion to Router nodes. |
Hive Client | The Hive client provides applications like Beeline and JDBC, allowing users to submit SQL jobs to HiveServer2. Hive service is installed on all nodes where the service is deployed. |
Hive WebHCat | WebHCat is a service that provides a REST API for HCatalog, allowing the execution of Hive commands and submission of MapReduce tasks through REST APIs. Multiple WebHCat instances can be deployed within a cluster, with support for scaling to Router nodes. |
Internal Table and External Table in Hive
Internal Table: Hive manages both the metadata and the actual data of internal tables. When you use the DROP command to delete an internal table, both the metadata and the corresponding data are deleted. After an internal table is created, HDFS files are mapped into a table, and Hive’s data warehouse generates a corresponding directory. The default warehouse path in EMR is /usr/hive/warehouse/${tablename}, where ${tablename} is the name of the table you create, located on HDFS.
External Table: External tables in Hive are similar to internal tables, but their data is not stored in the directory associated with the table itself; instead, it is stored elsewhere. The benefit of this is that if you delete the external table, the data it points to will not be deleted; only the metadata corresponding to the external table will be removed.
Hive Syntax
Hive in EMR is fully compatible with the open-source community syntax. For more details, see the HiveQL Community Syntax Manual.
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