Hive has held a special place in the Hadoop ecosystem for a long time because it provides a well-known SQL interface to data in Hadoop. Hive is widely used for data warehousing queries to provide summarizations or perform data analysis.
Here are the steps to set up Apache Hive 1.2.1:
Download the Hive distribution using the following command:
$ sudo wget –O /usr/local/hive.tar.gz http://mirror.sdunix.com/apache/hive/hive-1.2.1/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin.tar.gzExtract Hive to the desired location with a convenient name as follows:
$ cd /usr/local $ sudo tar –xvf hive.tar.gz $ sudo mv apache-hive-1.2.1-bin hive
Export the required environment variables by appending the following lines in the
/home/eshadoop/.bashrcfile:export HIVE_HOME=/usr/local/hive export PATH=$PATH:$HIVE_HOME/bin export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/usr/local/hive/lib/*:. export HADOOP_USER_CLASSPATH_FIRST=true export HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=/opt/lib/elasticsearch-hadoop-2.1.1.jar...