Hello Guillermo, Sure, you can use the Thrift API to connect to Hive
https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/hiveclient.html#HiveClient-Python cheers, esteban. -- Cloudera, Inc. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Guillermo Alvarado < guillermoalvarad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I want to build an application with Hadoop. I want to know which is the > best way to comunicate my GUI (Django based) with Hive. > > I have a CDH4 cluster running, I need to perform queries to hive then > graph the response. > > I know there is a JDBC client and a python client but I need have > installed hadoop in order to use it, is not there an API than I can consume > without have installed hadoop in the GUI server? or I need to build and > expose an API from the Hive server (Using the clients mentioned above)that > my GUI server will consume? > > So, What recommend me you guys? > > Thanks in advance, > Regards. >