Pig on spark is a very new feature, and it still not part of an official apache release. It is likely to be take more time before it would be widely used in production and reccomended for production use. Pig on tez has been around for sometime and has been used in production many large installations. I would reccomend using that over pig on spark. ... View more

You can also use following command to retrieve the password - sudo java -cp "/usr/hdp/current/ranger-tagsync/lib/*" org.apache.ranger.credentialapi.buildks get javax.jdo.option.connectionpassword -provider jceks://file/etc/hive/conf/conf.server/hive-site.jceks ... View more

"localhost" doesn't work with kerberos authentication, you need the actual hostname in URL. @Jonas Straub can you please edit ? ... View more

Look for "Hortonworks Sandbox Archive" under https://hortonworks.com/downloads/#sandbox and click on "Expand" to find older versions of sandbox. ... View more

User.name would be ignored during kerberos mode. The credentials via kinit is what gets used. ... View more

Can you please include the stack trace you see ? ... View more

Thanks for sharing. What query is this ? Is this performance of reads or writes ? ... View more

With HDP 2.3.4 and later releases, you don't need to specify any additional options as it includes the changes in HIVE-11581. Just the first URL is sufficient - jdbc:hive2://<zookeeper quorum>/;serviceDiscoveryMode=zooKeeper;zooKeeperNamespace=hiveserver2. See the hiveserver2 client doc Also make sure you have the url within quotes if you are specifying it in commandline. ie, beeline -u 'hive2...' ... View more

Use hive.execution.engine=tez for better performance ... View more