Kill hive queries without exiting from hive shell

Question

Is there any way we can kill hive query without exiting from hive shell ?. For Example, I wrongly ran the select statement from some table which has million rows of data, i just wanted to stop it, but not exiting from the shell. If I pressed CTRL+Z, its coming out of shell.

Answer 1

You have two options:

1. press Ctrl+C and wait till command terminates, it will not exit from hive CLI, press Ctrl+C second time and the session will terminate immediately exiting to the shell

2. from another shell run

   yarn application -kill <Application ID> or mapred job -kill <JOB_ID>

Answer 2

First, look for Job ID by:

hadoop job -list

And then kill it by ID:

hadoop job -kill <JOB_ID>

Answer 3

Go with the second option

yarn application -kill <Application ID>. Get the application ID by getting onto another session. This is the only way I think you would be able to kill the current query. I do use via beeline on hortonwork framework.