Overview

This documentation supplements the Hive product documentation and wiki.

Some of these chapters are adapted from the Hive wiki and updated with current information, and others are new chapters with information about Hive release 0.10.0. The complete Hive API documentation is also included.

The features documented here include:

• HiveServer2 JDBC
• Decimal data type
  • Data Types: BigDecimal Types
• Authorization and authentication
  • Authorization: Metastore Server Security
  • Configuration Properties: Hive Metastore Security
• Secure clusters
  • Hive Client: JDBC Client Setup for a Secure Cluster