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Published inFeb 2015
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Dayong Du
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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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Authorization


Authorization in Hive is used to verify if a user has permission to perform a certain action, such as creating, reading, and writing data or metadata. Hive provides three authorization modes: legacy mode, storage-based mode, and SQL standard-based mode.

Legacy mode

This is the default authorization mode in Hive, providing column and row-level authorization through HQL statements. However, it is not a completely secure authorization mode and has a couple of limitations. It can be mainly used to prevent good users from accidentally doing bad things rather than preventing malicious users' operations. In order to enable the legacy authorization mode, we need to set the following properties in hive-site.xml:

<property>
  <name>hive.security.authorization.enabled</name>
  <value>true</value>
  <description>enables or disable the hive client authorization
  </description>
</property>
<property>
  <name>hive.security.authorization...
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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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