Hive Database: A Basic Introduction
Hive Database: A Basic Introduction
An introduction to the architectural details for Hive and how it interacts with Hadoop.
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What Is Hive?
Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure tool that processes structured data in Hadoop. It resides on top of Hadoop to summarize Big Data and makes querying and analyzing easy.
Why Use Hive?
Most data warehousing applications work with SQL-based querying language. Hive supports easy portability of SQL-based applications to Hadoop.
Faster results for even the most tremendous datasets.
As data volume and variety increase, more machines can be added without any corresponding reduction in the performance
Features of Hive
It accelerates queries as it provides indexes, including bitmap indexes.
It stores metadata, which reduces the time to perform semantic checks during query execution.
It provides built-in functions to manipulate dates, strings, and other data-mining tools.
It supports different file formats like Avro Files, ORC Files, Parquet, etc.
Architecture of Hive
Major components of hive are as follows
Metastore
This component is responsible for storing all the structure information of the various tables and partitions in the warehouse, including column and column type information, serializers, and de-serializers necessary to read and write data and the corresponding HDFS files where the data is to be stored.
Driver
It acts like a controller that receives the HiveQL statements and starts the execution of statements by creating sessions and monitors the life cycle and progress of the execution. It stores the necessary metadata generated during the execution of an HiveQL statement. The driver also acts as a collection point of data or query result obtained after the Reduce operation.
Compiler
The component that parses the query, does semantic analysis on the different query blocks and query expressions, and eventually, generates an execution plan with the help of the table and partition metadata looked up from the Metastore.
In other words, the process can be described by the following flow:
Parser —> Semantic Analyser —> Logical Plan Generator —> Query Plan Generator.
Optimizer
Performs various transformations on the execution plan to get an optimized DAG (directed acyclic graph).
Executor
After compilation and optimization, the executor executes the tasks according to the DAG. It interacts with the job tracker of Hadoop to schedule tasks to be run. It takes care of pipelining the tasks by making sure that a task with dependency gets executed only if all other prerequisites are run.
CLI, UI, and Thrift Server
Interface that can be used by the users to submit queries and get the result.
How Does Hive Interact With Hadoop?
Execute Query
From the Hive interface (UI or Command Line), the query is sent to the driver for execution.
Check Syntax and Get Plan
The driver takes the help of query compiler, which parses a query to check the syntax and query plan or requirement of a query.
Get Metadata
The compiler sends metadata request to Metastore and in return, Metastore sends metadata as a response to the compiler.
Execute Plan
The compiler checks the requirement and resends the plan to the driver. The driver sends the execute plan to the execution engine.
Execute Job
An execution engine such as Tez or MapReduce executes the compiled query. The resource manager, YARN, allocates resources for applications across the cluster. The execution engine sends the job to JobTracker, which is in the Name node, and it assigns this job to TaskTracker, which is in the Data node. Here, the query executes the MapReduce job.
Fetch Query Result
The execution engine receives the result from data nodes and sends it to the driver, which returns the result to the Hive interface over a JDBC/ODBC connection.
After knowing all these internal details about the execution of hive queries, I hope you will find it more interesting to work on.
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