Yea they are orthogonal to me. Local mode (local MR) means execution is co-located in Hive, local metastore means the HMS (metadata service) is co-located with Hive.
Thanks Szehon On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Lefty Leverenz <leftylever...@gmail.com> wrote: > How is local mode (for execution of queries) related to local metastore, or > are they unrelated? > > I was just linking wikidocs for these topics to each other, then realized > they aren't identical. > > - Hive, Map-Reduce and Local-Mode > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/GettingStarted#GettingStarted-Hive,Map-ReduceandLocal-Mode > > > - Local Metastore > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+MetastoreAdmin#AdminManualMetastoreAdmin-LocalMetastore > > > > -- Lefty >
