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About

Scratch space for Hive jobs.

This directory is used by Hive to store:

  • the plans for different map/reduce stages for the query
  • intermediate outputs of plan operations

Management

Default value

The default value is /tmp/hive

Configuration

Location

conf value

Example: 

bin/hive or bin/beeline --hiveconf hive.exec.scratchdir=/tmp/mydir

Permission

winutils.exe chmod -R 777 c:\tmp\hive