Apache Hive Cookbook

Installing Hive

We will now take a look at installing Hive along with all the prerequisites.

Getting ready

Let's download the stable version from one of the mirrors:

$ wget http://a.mbbsindia.com/hive/hive-1.2.1/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin.tar.gz

How to do it…

This can be achieved in three ways.

Hive with an embedded metastore

Once you have downloaded the Hive tar-ball file, installing and setting up a Hive is pretty simple and straightforward. Extract the compressed tar:

$tar –xzvf apache-hive-1.2.1-bin.tar.gz

Export the location where Hive is extracted as the environment variable HIVE_HOME:

$ cd  apache-hive-1.2.1-bin
$ export HIVE_HOME={{pwd}}

Hive has all its installation scripts in the $HIVE_HOME/bin directory. Export this location to the PATH environment ...