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@@ -487,9 +487,9 @@ Configuration of Hive is done by placing your `hive-site.xml` file in `conf/`.
When working with Hive one must construct a `HiveContext`, which inherits from `SQLContext`, and
adds support for finding tables in in the MetaStore and writing queries using HiveQL. Users who do
-not have an existing Hive deployment can also experiment with the `LocalHiveContext`,
-which is similar to `HiveContext`, but creates a local copy of the `metastore` and `warehouse`
-automatically.
+not have an existing Hive deployment can still create a HiveContext. When not configured by the
+hive-site.xml, the context automatically creates `metastore_db` and `warehouse` in the current
+directory.
{% highlight scala %}
// sc is an existing SparkContext.