Re: Difference between Local Hive Metastore server and A Hive-based Metastore server

2015-12-20 Thread Austin Lee
You mean local vs remote, right? Usually, local or embedded would mean you are doing some ad-hoc stuff and you are not persisting your metadata. Typically, people set up a remote metastore which can be accessed from one or more hive clients so that metadata can be persisted (in some database) and

Difference between Local Hive Metastore server and A Hive-based Metastore server

2015-12-17 Thread Divya Gehlot
Hi, I am new bee to spark and using 1.4.1 Got confused between Local Metastore server and a hive based metastore server. Can somebody share the usecases when to use which one and pros and cons ? I am using HDP 2,.3.2 in which hive-site-xml is already in spark configuration directory that means H