https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-it-needed-Hive-metaserver-as-well-as-Hive-server2-on-same/m-p/135006#M47843 <P>HiveServer2 and Metastore servers can be on different machines. HS2 can also be configured to get metadata via a remote Metastore server (HS2 opens a TCP client connection to Metastore server) or use an embedded Metastore server (in which case HS2 calls the Metastore Server's API directly: use hive.metastore.uris="" in hiveserver2-site.xml to achieve that).</P> Sat, 10 Dec 2016 05:27:30 GMT vgumashta 2016-12-10T05:27:30Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-it-needed-Hive-metaserver-as-well-as-Hive-server2-on-same/m-p/135004#M47841 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 02:28:04 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-it-needed-Hive-metaserver-as-well-as-Hive-server2-on-same/m-p/135004#M47841 swapnilspra 2016-12-03T02:28:04Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-it-needed-Hive-metaserver-as-well-as-Hive-server2-on-same/m-p/135005#M47842 <P>No, they can run on different machines.</P> Sat, 03 Dec 2016 03:19:41 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-it-needed-Hive-metaserver-as-well-as-Hive-server2-on-same/m-p/135005#M47842 clukasik 2016-12-03T03:19:41Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-it-needed-Hive-metaserver-as-well-as-Hive-server2-on-same/m-p/135006#M47843 <P>HiveServer2 and Metastore servers can be on different machines. HS2 can also be configured to get metadata via a remote Metastore server (HS2 opens a TCP client connection to Metastore server) or use an embedded Metastore server (in which case HS2 calls the Metastore Server's API directly: use hive.metastore.uris="" in hiveserver2-site.xml to achieve that).</P> Sat, 10 Dec 2016 05:27:30 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-it-needed-Hive-metaserver-as-well-as-Hive-server2-on-same/m-p/135006#M47843 vgumashta 2016-12-10T05:27:30Z