Hive Installation on Ubuntu

Hive Installation on Ubuntu:

Please follow the below steps to install Apache Hive on Ubuntu:

Step 1:  Download Hive tar.

Command: wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/hive/hive-2.1.0/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin.tar.gz

Step 2:  Extract the tar file.

Command: tar -xzf apache-hive-2.1.0-bin.tar.gz

Command: ls

Step 3: Edit the “.bashrc” file to update the environment variables for user.

Command:  sudo gedit .bashrc

Add the following at the end of the file:

# Set HIVE_HOME

export HIVE_HOME=/home/hduser/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin
export PATH=$PATH:/home/hduser/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/bin

Also, make sure that hadoop path is also set.

Run below command to make the changes work in same terminal.

Command: source .bashrc

Step 4: Check hive version.

Command: hive --version

Step 5:  Create Hive directories within HDFS. The directory ‘warehouse’ is the location to store the table or data related to hive.

Command:

• hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /user/hive/warehouse

• hdfs dfs -mkdir /tmp

Step 6: Set read/write permissions for table.

Command:

In this command, we are giving write permission to the group:

• hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse

• hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /tmp

Step 7:  Set Hadoop path in hive-env.sh

Command: cd apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/

Command: gedit conf/hive-env.sh

Set the parameters as shown in the below snapshot.

Step 8: Edit hive-site.xml

Command: gedit conf/hive-site.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
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<configuration>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
<value>jdbc:derby:;databaseName=/home/hduser/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/metastore_db;create=true</value>
<description>
JDBC connect string for a JDBC metastore.
To use SSL to encrypt/authenticate the connection, provide database-specific SSL flag in the connection URL.
For example, jdbc:postgresql://myhost/db?ssl=true for postgres database.
</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.metastore.warehouse.dir</name>
<value>/user/hive/warehouse</value>
<description>location of default database for the warehouse</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.metastore.uris</name>
<value/>
<description>Thrift URI for the remote metastore. Used by metastore client to connect to remote metastore.</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name>
<value>org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver</value>
<description>Driver class name for a JDBC metastore</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.PersistenceManagerFactoryClass</name>
<value>org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory</value>
<description>class implementing the jdo persistence</description>
</property>
</configuration>

Step 9: By default, Hive uses Derby database. Initialize Derby database.

Command: bin/schematool -initSchema -dbType derby

Step 10: Launch Hive.

Command: hive

Step 11: Run few queries in Hive shell.

Command: show databases;

Command: create table employee (id string, name string, dept string) row format delimited fields terminated by ‘\t’ stored as textfile;

Command: show tables;

Step 12: To exit from Hive:

Command: exit;

Now that you are done with Hive installation