Use Zeppelin to run Hive queries in Azure HDInsight

  • 2 minutes to read
  • Contributors
    • Jason Howell
    • Larry Franks
    • nitinme

HDInsight Interactive Query clusters include Zeppelin notebooks that you can use to run interactive Hive queries. In this article, you learn how to use Zeppelin to run Hive queries in Azure HDInsight.

Prerequisites

Before going through this article, you must have the following items:

  • HDInsight Interactive Query cluster. See Create cluster to create a HDInsight cluster. Make sure to choose the Interactive Query type.

Create a Zeppelin Note

  1. Browse to the following URL:

     https://CLUSTERNAME.azurehdinsight.net/zeppelin

    Replace CLUSTERNAME with the name of your cluster.

  2. Enter your Hadoop username and password. From the Zeppelin page, you can either create a new note or open existing notes. HiveSample contains some sample Hive queries.

    HDInsight Interactive Query zeppelin

  3. Click Create new Note.

  4. Type or select the following values:

    • Note name: enter a name for the note.
    • Default interpreter: select JDBC.

  5. Click Create Note.

  6. Run the following Hive query:

     %jdbc(hive)
 show tables

    HDInsight Interactive Query zeppelin runs query

    The %jdbc(hive) statement in the first line tells the notebook to use the Hive JDBC interpreter.

    The query shall return one Hive table called hivesampletable.

    The following are two more Hive queries that you can run against the hivesampletable. 

     %jdbc(hive)
 select * from hivesampletable limit 10

 %jdbc(hive)
 select ${group_name}, count(*) as total_count
 from hivesampletable
 group by ${group_name=market,market|deviceplatform|devicemake}
 limit ${total_count=10}

    Comparing to the traditional Hive, the query results come back must faster.

Next steps

In this article, you learned how to visualize data from HDInsight using Power BI. To learn more, see the following articles: