Apache Hive : Security

This page collects some resources and pointers for various efforts underway to add security features to Hive and related projects.

Authorization modes

The links below refer to the original Hive authorization mode. See Authorization for an overview of authorization modes, which include storage based authorization and SQL standards based authorization.

• Thoughts on security from Venkatesh
• Howl’s approach for persisting and validating DDL authorization via HDFS permissions
• HIVE-1264: Hadoop security integration
• THRIFT-889: allow Kerberos authentication over Thrift HTTP
• THRIFT-876: SASL integration
• Howl Authorization Proposal
• Hive Authorization Proposal

Note that Howl was the precursor to HCatalog.