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, the installation steps for Java and Hadoop are not provided here. For steps on installing them, please refer to https://www.java.com/en/download/help/download_options.xml and http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/ClusterSetup.html.

The following steps describe how to install Hive from Apache through the Linux command line:

1. Download Hive from Apache Hive and unpack it:

   bash-4.1$ wget http://apache.mirror.rafal.ca/hive/hive-1.0.0/apache-hive-1.0.0-bin.tar.gz
   bash-4.1$ tar -zxvf apache-hive-1.0.0-bin.tar.gz
   

2. Add Hive to the system path by opening /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc and add the following two rows:

   export HIVE_HOME=/home/hivebooks/apache-hive-1.0.0-bin
   export PATH=$PATH...