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Operates in embedded mode only, that is, it needs to have access to the Hive libraries. For more details see Getting Started and Hive CLI.

JDBC

This document describes the JDBC client for the original Hive Server (sometimes called Thrift server or HiveServer1). For information about the HiveServer2 JDBC client, see JDBC in the HiveServer2 Clients document. HiveServer2 use is reccomended, the original HiveServer has several concurrency issues and lacks several features available in HiveServer2.

For embedded mode, uri is just "jdbc:hive://". For standalone server, uri is "jdbc:hive://host:port/dbname" where host and port are determined by where the Hive server is run. For example, "jdbc:hive://localhost:10000/default". Currently, the only dbname supported is "default".

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