Installing Hive

You can install Hive on a node in the MapR cluster or on a MapR client node.See the Hive Release Notes for a list of fixes and new features. See the Interoperability Matrix to determine which Hive versions are supported with this MapR cluster version.

The following procedures use the operating system package managers to download and install Hive from the MapR Repository. If you want to install this component manually from packages files, see Packages and Dependencies for MapR Software.

Hive is distributed as the following packages:

Package Description
mapr-hive The core Hive package.
mapr-hiveserver2 The Hive package that enables HiveServer2 to be managed by the warden, allowing you to start and stop HiveServer2 using maprcli or the MapR Control System. The mapr-hive package is a dependency and will be installed if you install mapr-hiveserver2. At installation time, Hiveserver2 is started automatically.
mapr-hivemetastore The Hive package that enables the Hive Metastore to be managed by the warden, allowing you to start and stop Hive Metastore using maprcli or the MapR Control System. The mapr-hive package is a dependency and will be installed if you install mapr-hivemetastore. At installation time, the Hive Metastore is started automatically.
mapr-hivewebhcat The Hive package that enables WebHCat to be managed by the warden, allowing you to start and stop WebHCat using maprcli or the MapR Control System. The mapr-hive package is a dependency and will be installed if you install mapr-hivewebhcat. At installation time, the WebHCat is started automatically.