Containerized Apache Hive Metastore for horizontally scalable Hive Metastore deployments backed by a PostgreSQL-compatible database.

The hive-metastore image is stored on Docker Hub in the rtdl/hive-metastore repository.

This is a sub-project of rtdl – the real-time data lake. Please go to rtdl's repo and give it a star.

To get a persistent Apache Hive Metastore instance running in a container backed by a PostgreSQL-compatible database (all files stored in storage/ folder):

1. Run docker compose -f docker-compose.init.yml up -d.
   • Note: This configuration should be fault-tolerant, but if any containers or processes fail when running this, run docker compose -f docker-compose.init.yml down and retry.
2. After containers rtdl_catalog-db-init and rtdl_catalog-init exit and complete with EXITED (0), kill and delete the rtdl container set by running docker compose -f docker-compose.init.yml down
3. Run docker compose up -d every time after.
   • docker compose down to stop.

Note: To start from scratch, first run the below commands from the repo's root folder.

% rm -rf storage/

• This image is not interactive and has no default ENTRYPOINT. You must use the entrypoint option along with a corresponding shell script and volumes to load scripts to execute.
• A PostgreSQL-compatible database is required to run the container. Define your connection credentials in conf/metastore-site.xml and use the 'volumes' option to load your metastore-site.xml file to /opt/apache-hive-metastore-{version}-bin/conf/metastore-site.xml.
• This image opens port 9083. Use this port to connect to your Hive Metastore instance.