...
You can install a stable release of Hive by downloading a tarball, or you can download the source code and build Hive from that.
Requirements
- Java 1.7 (preferred), Java 1.6
- Hadoop 2.x (preferred), 1.x. Versions 0.13 and older also supported 0.20.x, 0.23.x, or 2.0.x-alpha
Installing Hive from a Stable Release
...