Starting the Hive server

A node in the analytics cluster acts as the Hive server. To start the Hive server, run the start command from a node in the Hadoop cluster.

A node in the analytics cluster can act as the Hive server. Other nodes connect to Hive through the JDBC driver. To start the Hive server, choose a node in the Hadoop cluster and run this command:

Installer-Services and Package installations:

subcommand hive --service hiveserver

Installer-No Services and Tarball installations:

install_location/bin/dse [-u username -p password] hive  --service hiveserver

Starting the HiveServer2

DataStax Enterprise integrates Apache HiveServer2, an improved version of HiveServer that supports multi-client concurrency and other features.

To start HiveServer2, run this command:

dse [-u username -p password] hive --service hiveserver2

After starting HiveServer2, use the Beeline command shell to connect to the server and run Hive queries.