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Apache Hive Essentials. - Second Edition

By : Dayong Du
Book Image

Apache Hive Essentials. - Second Edition

By: Dayong Du

Overview of this book

In this book, we prepare you for your journey into big data by frstly introducing you to backgrounds in the big data domain, alongwith the process of setting up and getting familiar with your Hive working environment. Next, the book guides you through discovering and transforming the values of big data with the help of examples. It also hones your skills in using the Hive language in an effcient manner. Toward the end, the book focuses on advanced topics, such as performance, security, and extensions in Hive, which will guide you on exciting adventures on this worthwhile big data journey. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with Hive and able to work effeciently to find solutions to big data problems
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Installing Hive from vendors

Right now, many companies, such as Cloudera and Hortonworks, have packaged the Hadoop ecosystem and management tools into an easily manageable enterprise distribution. Each company takes a slightly different strategy, but the consensus for all of these packages is to make the Hadoop ecosystem easier and more stable for enterprise usage. For example, we can easily install Hive with the Hadoop management tools, such as Cloudera Manager (https://www.cloudera.com/products/product-components/cloudera-manager.html) or Ambari (https://ambari.apache.org/), which are packed in vendor distributions. Once the management tool is installed and started, we can add the Hive service to the Hadoop cluster with the following steps:

  1. Log in to the Cloudera Manager/Ambari and click the Add a Service option to enter the Add Service Wizard

  2. Choose the service to install...