Beeswax is an application that lives within Cloudera Desktop and helps you use Hive to query your data.
First you must have configured your package manager with the appropriate repository; you’ve already done this, if you installed Cloudera Desktop using packages. Then, run:
# yum install beeswax
or
# apt-get install beeswax
Download the tarball.
To install Beeswax, you need to use Desktop build system to install the Beeswax package. Specifically:
## Untar the package # tar -xf beeswax-basic-0.1.0.tar.gz ## Install it # export ROOT=/usr/share/cloudera-desktop # cd beeswax-basic-0.1.0 # make -f $ROOT/desktop/app.mk env-install ## Add necessary tables to the DB # /usr/share/cloudera-desktop/env/bin/desktop syncdb ## Restart Desktop ## If not using the init scripts, bounce the "supervisor" process. # /etc/init.d/cloudera-desktop restart
Beeswax, the Hive interface in Cloudera Desktop, includes Hive 0.5. You do not need an existing Hive installation.
Your Hive data is stored in HDFS, normally under under /user/hive/warehouse
(or any path you specify as hive.metastore.warehouse.dir in your
hive-site.xml). Please ensure that this location exists, and is writable by
the users whom you expect to be creating tables. /tmp (on the local file
system) should be world-writable, as Hive makes extensive use of it.
Please first familiarize yourself with the configuration options in
hive-site.xml (see
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/AdminManual/Configuration).
Having a hive-site.xml is optional but often useful, particularly on setting
up a metastore.
You may store the hive-site.xml in /etc/cloudera-desktop/conf, or instruct
Beeswax to locate it using the hive_conf_dir configuration variable. See
/etc/cloudera-desktop/conf/cloudera-desktop-beeswax.ini.