Hive Command Line Interface (CLI) –
- Interaction with Hive is commonly done with CLI
- Hive CLI is started with the $HIVE_HOME/bin/hive command which is a bash script
- Prompt for hive is hive >
- Using CLI , you can create tables, inspect schema and query tables
- CLI is a thick client for Hive – it needs local copy of all Hive and Hadoop client components along with their configurations
- It can work as a JDBC client , MapReduce client or HDFS client
Hive Graphical user Interface(GUI) Tools –
- Ambari – Provided by Hortonworks Distribution
- HUE – Provided by Cloudera Distribution
- QuBole
- Karmasphere
