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Installing Hive
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This section describes installation for Hive 0.12.0 and earlier releases, which use Apache Ant to build Hive. To build Hive 0.13.0 and later releases with Apache Maven, see Getting Started. |
Installing Hive is simple and only requires having Java 1.6 and Ant installed on your machine (for Hive 0.12 and earlier; for Hive 0.13 and later see Getting Started).
Hive is available via SVN at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk. You can download it by running the following command.
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$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk hive
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To build Hive, execute the following command on the base directory:
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$ ant package
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It will create the subdirectory build/dist with the following contents:
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To use the Hive command line interface (cli) go to the Hive home directory (the one with the contents of build/dist) and execute the following command:
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$ bin/hive
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Hive Metastore
Metadata is stored in an embedded Derby database whose disk storage location is determined by the Hive configuration variable named javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL. By default, this location is ./metastore_db (see conf/hive-default.xml).
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