Compiling Hive from source

In this recipe, we will see how to compile Hive from source.

Getting ready

Apache Hive is an open source framework available for compilation and modification by any user. Hive source code is a maven project. The source has intermittent scripts executed on a UNIX platform during compilation.

The following prerequisites need to be installed:

  • UNIX OS: UNIX is preferable for Hive source compilation. Although the source could also be compiled on Windows, you need to comment out the intermittent scripts execution.
  • Maven: The following are the steps to configure maven:
    1. Download the Apache maven binaries for Linux (.tar.gz) from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi.
      wget http://mirror.olnevhost.net/pub/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz ...

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