install and configure hive

Personally, the configuration procedure of Hive is much easier than Hbase.

download

hive

install

Move to installation folder, copy configuration files

tar -zxf apache-hive-0.13.1-bin.tar.gz
mv apache-hive-0.13.1 /usr/local/hive
cd /usr/local/hive/conf
cp hive-default.xml.template hive-site.xml
cp hive-log4j.properties.template hive-log4j.properties

update env var:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64
export HADOOP_INSTALL=/usr/local/hadoop
export PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_INSTALL/bin:$HADOOP_INSTALL/sbin
export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=$HADOOP_INSTALL
export HADOOP_COMMON_HOME=$HADOOP_INSTALL
export HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=$HADOOP_INSTALL
export YARN_HOME=$HADOOP_INSTALL
export HADOOP_COMMON_LIB_NATIVE_DIR=$HADOOP_INSTALL/lib/native
export HADOOP_OPTS="-Djava.library.path=$HADOOP_INSTALL/lib"

export HIVE_HOME=/usr/local/hive
export PATH=$HIVE_HOME/bin:$PATH

configure

Actually this configuration comprise of two parts, first one is call metastore, in which the data structure and definition stored.
Another is the so called data stored in HDFS.

Hive treat metastore into RDBMS, here I want to use postgresql.

setup hive to store metadata into postgresql, edit $HIVE_HOME/conf/hive-site.xml

<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
  <value>jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres</value>
  <description>JDBC connect string for a JDBC metastore</description>
</property>

<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name>
  <value>org.postgresql.Driver</value>
  <description>Driver class name for a JDBC metastore</description>
</property>

<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword</name>
  <value>123456</value>
  <description>password to use against metastore database</description>
</property>

<property>
  <name>hive.metastore.warehouse.dir</name>
  <value>/user/hive/warehouse</value>
  <description>location of default database for the warehouse</description>
</property>

create related tables in postgresql.
This schema file is under $HIVE_HOME/scripts, find the one that fit your requirement.

psql -Upostgres -h127.0.0.1 -f hive-schema-0.9.0.postgres.sql

Download the JDBC driver for postgresql and move it into $HIVE_HOME/lib

Now just create folders.
Create directories on HDFS for HIVE.

$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -mkidr /tmp
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -mkidr /user/hive/warehouse
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /tmp
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse

start

# startup metastore service
hive --service metastore &

# startup hive server
hive --service hiveserver &

# launch hive interactive client
hive shell

basic usage

hive> CREATE TABLE student (name string, value string);
hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/home/rugal/data/data.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE t_hive ;

After the creation of table and the import, now check the HDFS for imported data.

hadoop fs -cat /user/hive/warehouse/t_hive/t_hive.txt

Seems good, Cong!
For further steps, please visit official.