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Lock Manager

DbLockManager, introduced in Hive 0.13, stores all transaction and related lock information in the Hive Metastore. Heartbeats are sent regularly from lock holders and transaction initiators to the Hive metastore to prevent stale locks and transactions. The lock or transaction is aborted if the metastore does not receive a heartbeat within the amount of time specified by the hive.txn.timeout configuration property. Hive administrators use the SHOW LOCKS DDL command to view information about locks associated with transactions.

This command provides the following output for each lock:

  • Database name

  • Table name

  • Partition, if the table is partitioned

  • Lock state:

    • Acquired - transaction initiator hold the lock

    • Waiting - transaction initiator is waiting for the lock

    • Aborted - the lock has timed out but has not yet been cleaned

  • Lock type:

    • Exclusive - the lock may not be shared

    • Shared_read - the lock may be shared with any number of other shared_read locks

    • Shared_write - the lock may be shared by any number of other shared_read locks but not with other shared_write locks

  • Transaction ID associated with the lock, if one exists

  • Last time lock holder sent a heartbeat

  • Time the lock was acquired, if it has been acquired

  • Hive user who requested the lock

  • Host machine on which the Hive user is running a Hive client

[Note]Note

The output of the command reverts to behavior prior to Hive 0.13 if administrators use ZooKeeper or in-memory lock managers.