Prerequisites and Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• CPU (processor must support at least SSSE3)
• Minimum Memory: 8GB

Supported Operating Systems

Linux

• Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04

OS X

Not supported

Windows

Not supported

Installing and Configuring Impala

1. Install prerequisites

   git clone https://github.com/awleblang/impala-setup
   cd impala-setup
   sudo ./install.sh

2. Clone the Impala git repo and change to the new Impala directory.

   git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-impala.git Impala
   cd Impala

3. Set the following environment variables in your `.bashrc` or elsewhere:

   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
   export IMPALA_HOME=<path to Impala>
   export BOOST_LIBRARYDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
   export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
   export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.5
   export M2=$M2_HOME/bin 
   export PATH=$M2:$PATH
   

4. Build Impala

   source ${IMPALA_HOME}/bin/impala-config.sh
   # Build Impala and prepare the local pseudo-cluster (the first time only)
   ${IMPALA_HOME}/buildall.sh -noclean -skiptests -build_shared_libs -format

5. Start supporting services

   Start supporting services

   # This script starts a full set of local services 
   # including HDFS, HBase, Hive and ZooKeeper, amongst 
   # other things. If you have trouble starting this script, 
   # check the log files in${IMPALA_HOME}/cluster_logs/ for clues.
   ${IMPALA_HOME}/testdata/bin/run-all.sh

6. Start the Impala cluster
7. Check that everything works correctly
8. Have fun...
9. Recompile