How to Access Hive via Python?

Question

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HiveClient#HiveClient-Python appears to be outdated.

When I add this to /etc/profile:

export PYTHONP         


        

Answer 1

The examples above are a bit out of date. One new example is here:

import pyhs2 as hive
import getpass
DEFAULT_DB = 'default'
DEFAULT_SERVER = '10.37.40.1'
DEFAULT_PORT = 10000
DEFAULT_DOMAIN = 'PAM01-PRD01.IBM.COM'

u = raw_input('Enter PAM username: ')
s = getpass.getpass()
connection = hive.connect(host=DEFAULT_SERVER, port= DEFAULT_PORT, authMechanism='LDAP', user=u + '@' + DEFAULT_DOMAIN, password=s)
statement = "select * from user_yuti.Temp_CredCard where pir_post_dt = '2014-05-01' limit 100"
cur = connection.cursor()

cur.execute(statement)
df = cur.fetchall() 

In addition to the standard python program, a few libraries need to be installed to allow Python to build the connection to the Hadoop databae.

1.Pyhs2, Python Hive Server 2 Client Driver

2.Sasl, Cyrus-SASL bindings for Python

3.Thrift, Python bindings for the Apache Thrift RPC system

4.PyHive, Python interface to Hive

Remember to change the permission of the executable

chmod +x test_hive2.py ./test_hive2.py

Wish it helps you. Reference: https://sites.google.com/site/tingyusz/home/blogs/hiveinpython