What if we want to serve metadata to non-Hive clients or the machine on which Hive is running may not have access to the database? There are many scenarios in which having a stand alone metastore server will be the only alternative.
________________________________ From: Yongqiang He <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:42:16 -0800 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Why hive interact with the metastore through thrift? Hi, guys I mean, if we use a mysql/otherdb server for metadata store, why not let the hive directly access the metastore(database server)? Thanks! He Yongqiang
