Hudi hive sync tool typically handles registration of the dataset into Hive metastore. In case, there are issues with quickstart around this, following page shows commands that can be used to do this manually via beeline.

Add in the packaging/hoodie-hive-bundle/target/hoodie-hive-bundle-0.4.6-SNAPSHOT.jar, so that Hive can read the Hudi dataset and answer the query.

hive> set hive.input.format=org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat;
hive> set hive.stats.autogather=false;
hive> add jar file:///path/to/hoodie-hive-bundle-0.5.2-SNAPSHOT.jar;
Added [file:///path/to/hoodie-hive-bundle-0.5.2-SNAPSHOT.jar] to class path
Added resources: [file:///path/to/hoodie-hive-bundle-0.5.2-SNAPSHOT.jar]

Then, you need to create a ReadOptimized Hive table as below and register the sample partitions

DROP TABLE hoodie_test;
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE hoodie_test(`_row_key` string,
    `_hoodie_commit_time` string,
    `_hoodie_commit_seqno` string,
    rider string,
    driver string,
    begin_lat double,
    begin_lon double,
    end_lat double,
    end_lon double,
    fare double)
    PARTITIONED BY (`datestr` string)
    ROW FORMAT SERDE
    'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.serde.ParquetHiveSerDe'
    STORED AS INPUTFORMAT
    'com.uber.hoodie.hadoop.HoodieInputFormat'
    OUTPUTFORMAT
    'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.MapredParquetOutputFormat'
    LOCATION
    'hdfs:///tmp/hoodie/sample-table';
     
ALTER TABLE `hoodie_test` ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION (datestr='2016-03-15') LOCATION 'hdfs:///tmp/hoodie/sample-table/2016/03/15';
ALTER TABLE `hoodie_test` ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION (datestr='2015-03-16') LOCATION 'hdfs:///tmp/hoodie/sample-table/2015/03/16';
ALTER TABLE `hoodie_test` ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION (datestr='2015-03-17') LOCATION 'hdfs:///tmp/hoodie/sample-table/2015/03/17';
     
set mapreduce.framework.name=yarn;

And you can add a Realtime Hive table, as below

DROP TABLE hoodie_rt;
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE hoodie_rt(
    `_hoodie_commit_time` string,
    `_hoodie_commit_seqno` string,
    `_hoodie_record_key` string,
    `_hoodie_partition_path` string,
    `_hoodie_file_name` string,
    timestamp double,
    `_row_key` string,
    rider string,
    driver string,
    begin_lat double,
    begin_lon double,
    end_lat double,
    end_lon double,
    fare double)
    PARTITIONED BY (`datestr` string)
    ROW FORMAT SERDE
    'com.uber.hoodie.hadoop.realtime.HoodieParquetSerde'
    STORED AS INPUTFORMAT
    'com.uber.hoodie.hadoop.realtime.HoodieRealtimeInputFormat'
    OUTPUTFORMAT
    'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.MapredParquetOutputFormat'
    LOCATION
    'file:///tmp/hoodie/sample-table';
     
ALTER TABLE `hoodie_rt` ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION (datestr='2016-03-15') LOCATION 'file:///tmp/hoodie/sample-table/2016/03/15';
ALTER TABLE `hoodie_rt` ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION (datestr='2015-03-16') LOCATION 'file:///tmp/hoodie/sample-table/2015/03/16';
ALTER TABLE `hoodie_rt` ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION (datestr='2015-03-17') LOCATION 'file:///tmp/hoodie/sample-table/2015/03/17';