Hive Metastore Connection¶

The Hive Metastore connection type enables the Hive Metastore Integrations.

Authenticating to Hive Metastore¶

Authentication with the Hive Metastore through Apache Thrift Hive Server and the hmsclient.

All hooks and operators related to the Hive Metastore use metastore_default by default.

Host (optional)

The host of your Hive Metastore node.

Port (optional)

Your Hive Metastore port number.

Extra (optional)

Specify the extra parameters (as json dictionary) that can be used in Hive Metastore connection. The following parameters are all optional:

authMechanism Specify the mechanism for authentication the default is NOSASL.
kerberos_service_name Specify The kerberos service name the default is hive.

When specifying the connection in environment variable you should specify it using URI syntax.

Note that all components of the URI should be URL-encoded.

For example:

export AIRFLOW_CONN_METASTORE_DEFAULT='hive-metastore://hive-metastore-node:80?authMechanism=NOSASL'