The HIVE connection functions the same as a JDBC connection. It supplies the JDBC driver and metadata information which are the same as JDBC. However, it expands many native functions to support non SQL and huge data that are not supported by JDBC. The libraries that support HIVE 0.12.0 are listed as below. You can add them in <install_root>\lib
when needed:
If you use higher HIVE versions, you can replace the libraries with new jars.