diff --git a/dev/archery/archery/lang/cpp.py b/dev/archery/archery/lang/cpp.py
index 158cc48baddab..f113b43ba6ed9 100644
--- a/dev/archery/archery/lang/cpp.py
+++ b/dev/archery/archery/lang/cpp.py
@@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ def _gen_defs(self):
         yield ("ARROW_GANDIVA", truthifier(self.with_gandiva))
         yield ("ARROW_GCS", truthifier(self.with_gcs))
         yield ("ARROW_HDFS", truthifier(self.with_hdfs))
-        yield ("ARROW_HIVESERVER2", truthifier(self.with_hiveserver2))
         yield ("ARROW_IPC", truthifier(self.with_ipc))
         yield ("ARROW_JSON", truthifier(self.with_json))
         yield ("ARROW_JNI", truthifier(self.with_jni))
diff --git a/docs/source/developers/cpp/building.rst b/docs/source/developers/cpp/building.rst
index 40c007ce2f108..83c774c3dcca2 100644
--- a/docs/source/developers/cpp/building.rst
+++ b/docs/source/developers/cpp/building.rst
@@ -329,7 +329,6 @@ boolean flags to ``cmake``.
 * ``-DARROW_GCS=ON``: Build Arrow with GCS support (requires the GCloud SDK for C++)
 * ``-DARROW_HDFS=ON``: Arrow integration with libhdfs for accessing the Hadoop
   Filesystem
-* ``-DARROW_HIVESERVER2=ON``: Client library for HiveServer2 database protocol
 * ``-DARROW_JEMALLOC=ON``: Build the Arrow jemalloc-based allocator, on by default 
 * ``-DARROW_JSON=ON``: JSON reader module
 * ``-DARROW_MIMALLOC=ON``: Build the Arrow mimalloc-based allocator