Massoud Mazar

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Setting up Hadoop/Hive to use MySQL as metastore

In a previous post I showed how to setup Hadoop/Hive to use Derby in server mode as the metastore. Many believe MySQL is a better choice for such purpose, so here I'm going to show how we can configure our cluster which we created previously to use a MySQL server as the metastore for Hive.

First we need to install MySQL. In this scenario, I'm going to install MySQL on our Master node, which is named centos1. More...