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Hive installation has these requirements:
- Java 1.6 or 7 (preferred), Java 1.76
- Hadoop 2.x (preferred), 1.x. Hive versions up to 0.13 also supported 0.20.x, 0.23.x, or 2.0.x-alpha.
- Hive is commonly used in production Linux and Windows environment. Mac is a commonly used development environment. The instructions in this document are applicable to Linux and Mac. Using it on Windows would require slightly different steps.
Installing from a Tarball
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