Understanding HiveServer2 properties

By default, HiveServer2 is started with default configurations. The configurations are mainly related to the port and host on which the server is going to start and number of threads that could be configured for client and background operations.

How to do it…

You can change the default properties for HiveServer2 by overriding the value in hive-site.xml in the conf folder of Hive package.

Property	Default Value	Description
hive.server2.thrift.port	10000	HiveServer2 thrift interface
hive.server2.thrift.bind.host	localhost	HiveServer2 bind host
hive.server2.thrift.min.worker.threads	5	Minimum thrift worker threads
hive.server2.thrift.max.worker.threads	500	Maximum thrift worker threads
hive.server2.authentication	None	None/LDAP/KERBEROS/PAM/NOSASL
hive.server2.authentication.kerberos.keytab	""	A keytab file for kerberos principal
hive.server2.authentication.kerberos.principal	""	The Kerberos principal
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