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Published inFeb 2015
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Dayong Du
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Dayong Du

Dayong Du has all his career dedicated to enterprise data and analytics for more than 10 years, especially on enterprise use case with open source big data technology, such as Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Spark, etc. Dayong is a big data practitioner as well as author and coach. He has published the 1st and 2nd edition of Apache Hive Essential and coached lots of people who are interested to learn and use big data technology. In addition, he is a seasonal blogger, contributor, and advisor for big data start-ups, co-founder of Toronto big data professional association.
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The Hive-integrated development environment


Besides the command-line interface, there are a few integrated development environment (IDE) tools available for Hive development. One of the best is Oracle SQL Developer, which leverages the powerful functionalities of Oracle IDE and is totally free to use. If we have to use Oracle along with Hive in a project, it is quite convenient to switch between them only from the same IDE.

Oracle SQL developer has supported Hive since version 4.0.3. Configuring it to work with Hive is quite straightforward. The following are a few steps to configure the IDE to connect to Hive:

  1. Download Hive JDBC drivers from the vendor website, such as Cloudera.

  2. Unzip the JDBC version 4 driver to a local directory.

  3. Start Oracle SQL Developer and navigate to Preferences | Database | Third Party JDBC Drivers.

  4. Add all of the JAR files contained in the unzipped directory to the Third-party JDBC Driver Path setting as follows:

    SQL developer configuration

  5. Click on the OK button and...

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Dayong Du

Dayong Du has all his career dedicated to enterprise data and analytics for more than 10 years, especially on enterprise use case with open source big data technology, such as Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Spark, etc. Dayong is a big data practitioner as well as author and coach. He has published the 1st and 2nd edition of Apache Hive Essential and coached lots of people who are interested to learn and use big data technology. In addition, he is a seasonal blogger, contributor, and advisor for big data start-ups, co-founder of Toronto big data professional association.
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