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https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HiveClient#HiveClient-Python appears to be outdated.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

This can be a quick hack to connect hive and python,

from pyhive import hive
cursor = hive.connect('YOUR_HOST_NAME').cursor()
cursor.execute('SELECT * from table_name LIMIT 5',async=True)
print cursor.fetchall()

Output: List of Tuples