whats the difference between beeline and hive

[#1]

I am not sure I understand why would I use beeline instead of hive , can someone explain ?

thanks

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Sami Ahmad

I hope below link will help to understand the difference between beeline and hive

https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.3.2/bk_dataintegration/content/beeline-vs-hive-...

[#3]

@Sami Ahmad

You'll want to use beeline going forward since the Hive CLI will be deprecated. Beeline's JDBC connection provides for a higher level of security than the Hive CLI.

[#4]

You may find this useful as well for future. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HiveServer2+Clients Also, be advised ranger only works with hiveserver2.