What is your hive metastore is on? If it is on an RDBMS, then you can simply use client/JDBC tools to access the metastore. Pretty simple.
HTH, On 26/8/2015, "Jerrick Hoang" <jerrickho...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >I want to interact with HiveMetaStore table from code and was looking at >http://hive.apache.org/javadocs/r0.13.1/api/metastore/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveMetaStoreClient.html >, was wondering if this is the correct way to do this or should I use a >jdbc client. If HiveMetaStoreClient is the right way then how do I create a >client given a hive-site.xml, > >Thanks, >J > >
