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Hive Documentation

The links below provide access to the Apache Hive wiki documents.  This list is not complete, but you can navigate through these wiki pages to find additional documents.

For more information, please see the official Hive website.

General Information about Hive

• Getting Started
• Presentations and Papers about Hive
• A List of Sites and Applications Powered by Hive
• Third-party Applications, Libraries, and Projects related to Hive
• FAQ
• hive-users Mailing List
• Hive IRC Channel: #hive on irc.freenode.net
• About This Wiki

User Documentation

• Hive Tutorial
• HiveQL Language Manual:  Commands, CLIs, File Formats, Data Types,
  DDL (create/drop/alter/truncate/show/describe), Statistics (analyze), Indexes, Archiving,
  DML (load/insert/update/delete, import/export, explain plan), Queries (select), Operators and Functions,
  Locks, Authorization
• Hive Configuration Properties
• Hive Clients
  • Hive Client (JDBC, ODBC, Thrift)
  • HiveServer2 Client and Beeline
• Hive Web Interface
• Hive SerDes
  • Avro SerDe
  • Parquet SerDe
  • CSV SerDe
• Hive Accumulo Integration
• Hive HBase Integration
• Hive Transactions
  • Streaming Data Ingest

Administrator Documentation

• Installing Hive
• Configuring Hive
• Setting Up Metastore
• Setting Up Hive Web Interface
• Setting Up Hive Server (JDBC, ODBC, Thrift, HiveServer2)
• Hive on Amazon Web Services
• Hive on Amazon Elastic MapReduce
• Hive on Spark: Getting Started

HCatalog and WebHCat Documentation

• HCatalog
• WebHCat (Templeton)

Resources for Contributors

• How to Contribute
• Hive Contributors Meetings
• Hive Developer Docs
  • Hive Developer Guide (code organization, compile and run Hive, unit tests, debug, pluggable interfaces)
  • Hive Developer FAQ (move files, build Hive, test Hive, MiniDriver and Beeline tests)
  • Plugin Developer Kit
  • Writing UDTFs
• Hive Testing Docs
  • FAQ:  Testing
  • Developer Guide:  Unit Tests
  • Unit Test Parallel Execution
  • Tips for Adding New Tests
  • Hive PTest2 Infrastructure
  • Hive PreCommit Patch Testing
  • MiniDriver and Beeline Tests
• Hive Performance
• Hive Architecture Overview
• Hive Design Docs
  • Completed
  • In Progress
  • Proposed
  • Incomplete, Abandoned, Other
• Roadmap/Call to Add More Features
• Full-Text Search over All Hive Resources
• How to edit the website
• Becoming a Committer
• How to Commit
• How to Release
• Project Bylaws

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