Apache default Hive Warehouse path in HDFS

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I installed HIVE on CentOS 7 3-node cluster the first time for POC purpose. HIVE is installed inside a user(hduser1)'s root folder and specified in the .bashrc file.

export HIVE_HOME=/home/hduser1/hive

I also created an HDFS folder for HIVE warehouse, with the following commands.

hadoop fs -mkdir /user/hive/warehouse hadoop fs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse

Everything works fine. After I created a table, I saw a file appearing in the warehouse folder.

Here is my question - how does HIVE know about this warehouse path, considering that I did not add this path /user/hive/warehouse in any configuration file?

I saw another person's installation, which created the Hive warehouse folder at /user/hive234/warehouse and that installation still worked. Does HIVE figure it out by some naming convention?

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1 Answers

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Well, as you know that default location is maintain as /user/hive/warehouse, But you can change location as well, by specifying the desired directory in hive.metastore.warehouse.dir configuration parameter present in the hive-site.xml, one can change this default location.
Here is the example