Are there features that are only provided by the remote datastore (like authorization)?
No. All features should be provided by both. In the case of authorization, the problem is that it did not get fully tested with a remote metastore. So you saw some small bugs when running authorization on a remote metastore. Thanks Yongqiang On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Ashutosh Chauhan <hashut...@apache.org> wrote: > Alex, > Difference between the two is that in case of local metastore, hive client > communicates directly to the mysql while in case of remote metastore, hive > client first talks to a remote metastore which in turns talks to mysql. In > terms of feature-set they are identical. > Hope it helps, > Ashutosh > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:03, Alex Holmes <grep.a...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Does anyone know the differences between local and remove Hive >> metastores? Are there features that are only provided by the remote >> datastore (like authorization)? Is the use of a local metastore >> recommended in production? >> >> Many thanks, >> Alex > >
