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  $ $HIVE_HOME/bin/hive

HiveServer2 (introduced in Hive 0.11) has its own CLI called Beeline.  HiveCLI is now deprecated in favor of Beeline, as it lacks the multi-user, security, and other capabilities of HiveServer2.  To run HiveServer2 and Beeline from shell:

  $ $HIVE_HOME/bin/hiveserver2

  $ $HIVE_HOME/bin/beeline -u jdbc:hive2://$HS2_HOST:$HS2_PORT

Beeline is started with the JDBC URL of the HiveServer2, which depends on the address and port where HiveServer2 was started.  By default, it will be (localhost:10000), so the address will look like jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000.

Or to start Beeline and HiveServer2 in the same process for testing purpose, for a similar user experience to HiveCLI:

  $ $HIVE_HOME/bin/beeline -u jdbc:hive2://

Running HCatalog

To run the HCatalog server from the shell in Hive release 0.11.0 and later:

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