The Hive service has multiple, associated components. The primary Hive components are: Hive Metastore and HiveServer2. To setup high availability for the Hive service, you can run two or more of each of those components.
![[Note]](../common/images/admon/note.png) | Note |
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This feature is available with HDP 2.2 or later. |
![[Important]](../common/images/admon/important.png) | Important |
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The relational database that backs the Hive Metastore itself should also be made highly available using best practices defined for the database system in use. |
