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The Hive connector allows querying data stored in a Hive data warehouse.

Prerequisites

• Hadoop
• Hive

Hopefully you have installed Hadoop and Hive on your machine. Start all the services one by one in the new terminal. Then, start hive metastore using the following command,

hive --service metastore

Presto uses Hive metastore service to get the hive table’s details.

Configuration Settings

Create a file “hive.properties” under “etc/catalog” directory. Use the following command.

$ cd etc 
$ cd catalog 
$ vi hive.properties  

connector.name = hive-cdh4 
hive.metastore.uri = thrift://localhost:9083

After making all the changes, save the file and quit the terminal.

Create Database

Create a database in Hive using the following query −

Query

hive> CREATE SCHEMA tutorials; 

After the database is created, you can verify it using the “show databases” command.

Create Table

Create Table is a statement used to create a table in Hive. For example, use the following query.

hive> create table author(auth_id int, auth_name varchar(50), 
topic varchar(100) STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE;

Insert Table

Following query is used to insert records in hive’s table.

hive> insert into table author values (1,’ Doug Cutting’,Hadoop),
(2,’ James Gosling’,java),(3,’ Dennis Ritchie’,C);

Start Presto CLI

You can start Presto CLI to connect Hive storage plugin using the following command.

$ ./presto --server localhost:8080 --catalog hive —schema tutorials; 

You will receive the following response.

presto:tutorials >

List Schemas

To list out all the schemas in Hive connector, type the following command.

Query

presto:tutorials > show schemas from hive;

Result

default  

tutorials 

List Tables

To list out all the tables in “tutorials” schema, use the following query.

Query

presto:tutorials > show tables from hive.tutorials; 

Result

author

Fetch Table

Following query is used to fetch all the records from hive’s table.

Query

presto:tutorials > select * from hive.tutorials.author; 

Result

auth_id  |   auth_name    | topic 
---------+----------------+-------- 
       1 | Doug Cutting   | Hadoop 
       2 | James Gosling  | java 
       3 | Dennis Ritchie | C