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Apache Hive Installation on Ubuntu

Last updated on Oct 05,2024 131.1K Views

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Apache Hive is one of the most important frameworks in the Hadoop ecosystem, in-turn making it very crucial for Hadoop Certification. In this blog, we will learn about Apache Hive and Hive installation on Ubuntu.

What is Apache Hive?

Apache Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure that facilitates querying and managing large data sets which resides in distributed storage system. It is built on top of Hadoop and developed by Facebook. Hive provides a way to query the data using a SQL-like query language called HiveQL(Hive query Language).

Internally, a compiler translates HiveQL statements into MapReduce jobs, which are then submitted to Hadoop framework for execution.

Difference between Hive and SQL:

Hive looks very much similar like traditional database with SQL access. However, because Hive is based on Hadoop and MapReduce operations, there are several key differences:

As Hadoop is intended for long sequential scans and Hive is based on Hadoop, you would expect queries to have a very high latency. Itmeans that Hive would not be appropriate for those applications that need very fast response times, as you can expect with a traditional RDBMS database.

Finally, Hive is read-based and therefore not appropriate for transaction processing that typically involves a high percentage of write operations.

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Hive Installation on Ubuntu:

Please follow the below steps to install Apache Hive on Ubuntu:

Step 1:  Download Hive tar.

Command: wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/hive/hive-2.1.0/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin.tar.gz

Step 2:  Extract the tar file.

Command: tar -xzf apache-hive-2.1.0-bin.tar.gz

Command: ls

Untar Hive File - Hive Installation - Edureka

Step 3: Edit the “.bashrc” file to update the environment variables for user.

Command:  sudo gedit .bashrc

Add the following at the end of the file:

# Set HIVE_HOME

export HIVE_HOME=/home/edureka/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin
export PATH=$PATH:/home/edureka/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/bin

Also, make sure that hadoop path is also set.

Hadoop Path - Hive Installation - Edureka

Run below command to make the changes work in same terminal.

Command: source .bashrc

Step 4: Check hive version.

Hive Version - Hive Installation - Edureka

Step 5:  Create Hive directories within HDFS. The directory ‘warehouse’ is the location to store the table or data related to hive.

Command:

  • hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /user/hive/warehouse
  • hdfs dfs -mkdir /tmp

Step 6: Set read/write permissions for table.

Command:

In this command, we are giving write permission to the group:

  • hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse
  • hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /tmp

Step 7:  Set Hadoop path in hive-env.sh

Command: cd apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/

Command: gedit conf/hive-env.sh

Hive Environment Configurations File - Hive Installation - Edureka

Set the parameters as shown in the below snapshot.

Hive Environment Configurations - Hive Installation - Edureka

Step 8: Edit hive-site.xml

Command: gedit conf/hive-site.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?><!--
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
-->
<configuration>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
<value>jdbc:derby:;databaseName=/home/edureka/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/metastore_db;create=true</value>
<description>
JDBC connect string for a JDBC metastore.
To use SSL to encrypt/authenticate the connection, provide database-specific SSL flag in the connection URL.
For example, jdbc:postgresql://myhost/db?ssl=true for postgres 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>
<property>
<name>hive.metastore.uris</name>
<value/>
<description>Thrift URI for the remote metastore. Used by metastore client to connect to remote metastore.</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name>
<value>org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver</value>
<description>Driver class name for a JDBC metastore</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.PersistenceManagerFactoryClass</name>
<value>org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory</value>
<description>class implementing the jdo persistence</description>
</property>
</configuration>

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Step 9: By default, Hive uses Derby database. Initialize Derby database.

Command: bin/schematool -initSchema -dbType derby

Initialize Derby Database - Hive Installation - Edureka

 

Step 10: Launch Hive.

Command: hive

Start Hive Shell - Hive Installation - Edureka

Step 11: Run few queries in Hive shell.

Command: show databases;

Command: create table employee (id string, name string, dept string) row format delimited fields terminated by ‘ ‘ stored as textfile;

Command: show tables;

Hive Commands - Hive Installation - Edureka

Step 12: To exit from Hive:

Command: exit;

Now that you are done with Hive installation, the next step forward is to try out Hive commands on Hive shell. Hence, our next blog “Top Hive Commands with Examples in HQL” will help you to master Hive commands.

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Comments
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  • when i type hive –version command in terminal

    error message given : Missing Hive Execution Jar: /home/rishi/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/bin/lib/hive-exec-*.jar

  • I am facing a problem to launch HIVE
    after typing hive command
    the result is:

    AarekhRana:/usr/local/hive$ hive
    SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
    SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/usr/local/hive/lib/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.10.0.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
    SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/usr/local/hadoop/share/hadoop/common/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
    SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
    SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory]
    WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
    WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.util.KerberosUtil (file:/usr/local/hadoop/share/hadoop/common/lib/hadoop-auth-2.9.0.jar) to method sun.security.krb5.Config.getInstance()
    WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.util.KerberosUtil
    WARNING: Use –illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
    WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
    Hive Session ID = 9abe20d7-31b6-4909-b630-141169d521bc
    Exception in thread “main” java.lang.ClassCastException: class jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader cannot be cast to class java.net.URLClassLoader (jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader and java.net.URLClassLoader are in module java.base of loader ‘bootstrap’)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.(SessionState.java:410)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.
    (SessionState.java:386)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliSessionState.
    (CliSessionState.java:60)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:705)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:683)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:239)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:153)

    what should I do?

  • I get the below error when I try to initialize the derby database

    org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaException: Failed to get schema version.
    Underlying cause: java.sql.SQLException : No suitable driver found for jdbc:derby:;databaseName=file:///scratch/thirdeye/software/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/metastore_db;create=true
    SQL Error code: 0

    I see derby-10.10.2.0.jar in $HIVE_HOME/lib . What could be the reason for this exception?

  • i am getting error in step number 9

    SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
    SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/home/hduser/hive/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/lib/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.4.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
    SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/usr/local/hadoop/share/hadoop/common/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
    SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
    SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory]
    Metastore connection URL: jdbc:derby:;databaseName=/home/hduser/hive/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/metastore_db;create=true
    Metastore Connection Driver : org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver
    Metastore connection User: APP
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaException: Failed to get schema version.
    Underlying cause: java.sql.SQLException : Failed to create database ‘/home/hduser/hive/apache-hive-2.1.0-bin/metastore_db’, see the next exception for details.
    SQL Error code: 40000
    Use –verbose for detailed stacktrace.
    *** schemaTool failed ***

    Please help

  • I’m trying to create external tables in redshift using HIVE->S3… can you put some light on this? help much appreciated

  • the default files within the directory “/apache-hive-2.3.2-bin/conf” don’t include a file named as “hive-site.xml” so in my case i have just created the file with the name and simply configure it as in the post. Then i have no problem to lunch hive shell and use the Derby database to create tables and data inside.

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