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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.
Note: Hive version 01.15 will 2 requires use Java 1.7 or newer. Hive versions 0.14 to 1.1 work with Java 1.6, but prefer 1.7. Users are strongly advised to start moving to Java 1.8 (see HIVE-8607). - Hadoop 2.x (preferred), 1.x.
Hive versions up to 0.13 also supported Hadoop 0.20.x, 0.23.x. - 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.
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