How to know Hive and Hadoop versions from command prompt?

Question

How can I find which Hive version I am using from the command prompt. Below is the details-

I am using Putty to connect to hive table and access records in the tables. So what I did is- I opened Putty and in the host name I typed- leo-ingesting.vip.name.com and then I click Open. And then I entered my username and password and then few commands to get to Hive sql. Below is the list what I did

$ bash bash-3.00$ hive Hive history file=/tmp/rkost/hive_job_log_rkost_201207010451_1212680168.txt hive> set mapred.job.queue.name=hdmi-technology; hive> select * from table LIMIT 1; 

So is there any way from the command prompt I can find which hive version I am using and Hadoop version too?

Answer 1

$ hive --version Hive version 0.8.1.3 

EDIT: added another '-' before the version. Doesn't work for newer versions. Hope it works for all now.

Known to work in the following distributions:

• HortonWorks distribution: $ hive --version Hive 0.14.0.2.2.0.0-2041
• CDH 5.3

It does not work:

• CDH 4.3
• HDinsight (Azure)

Answer 2

$ hadoop version Hadoop 0.20.2-cdh3u4 

Not sure you can get the Hive version from the command line, though. Maybe you could use something like the hive.hwi.war.file property or pull it out of the classpath, though.