Chapter 2. Setting Up the Hive Environment
This chapter will introduce how to install and set up the Hive environment in the cluster and cloud. It also covers the usage of basic Hive commands and the Hive-integrated development environment.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Installing Hive from Apache
- Installing Hive from vendor packages
- Starting Hive in the cloud
- Using the Hive command line and Beeline
- The Hive-integrated development environment
Installing Hive from Apache
To introduce the Hive installation, we use Hive version 1.0.0 as an example. The pre-installation requirements for this installation are as follows:
- JDK 1.7.0_51
- Hadoop 0.20.x, 0.23.x.y, 1.x.y, or 2.x.y
- Ubuntu 14.04/CentOS 6.2
Note
Since we focus on Hive in this book, ...
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