Install hive on Mac with Homebrew

Prerequisite

MySQL 5.6.22 is already installed.

Versions (2014/06/24)

• Hadoop 2.7.0
• Hive 1.1.1

were installed by Homebrew.

Install Hive and Hadoop

$ brew update
$ brew install hive

Configure enviromental variables

# ~/.bashrc
export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/local/Cellar/hadoop/2.7.0
export HIVE_HOME=/usr/local/Cellar/hive/1.1.1/libexec

Download JDBC

Go to mysql page and download the latest jdbc (sign up is required)
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/

$ tar zxvf mysql-connector-java-5.1.35.tar.gz
$ sudo cp mysql-connector-java-5.1.35/mysql-connector-java-5.1.35-bin.jar /usr/local/Cellar/hive/1.1.1/libexec/lib/

Setup MySQL database

$ mysql
mysql> CREATE DATABASE metastore;
mysql> USE metastore;
mysql> CREATE USER 'hiveuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,ALTER,CREATE ON metastore.* TO 'hiveuser'@'localhost';

Copy hive-default-xml to hive-site.xml

$ cd /usr/local/Cellar/hive/1.1.1/libexec/conf
$ cp hive-default.xml.template hive-site.xml

Edit following lines in hive-site.xml

<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
  <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/metastore</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name>
  <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName</name>
  <value>hiveuser</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword</name>
  <value>password</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>datanucleus.fixedDatastore</name>
  <value>false</value>
</property>
<property>
    <name>hive.exec.local.scratchdir</name>
    <value>/tmp/hive</value>
    <description>Local scratch space for Hive jobs</description>
</property>
<property>
    <name>hive.downloaded.resources.dir</name>
    <value>/tmp/hive</value>
    <description>Temporary local directory for added resources in the remote file system.</description>
</property>
<property>
    <name>hive.querylog.location</name>
    <value>/tmp/hive</value>
    <description>Location of Hive run time structured log file</description>
</property>

Run hive

$hive
hive > show tables;

refs
https://noobergeek.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/simplest-way-to-install-and-configure-hive-for-mac-osx-lion/