How to use Hive without hadoop

Question

I am a new to NoSQL solutions and want to play with Hive. But installing HDFS/Hadoop takes a lot of resources and time (maybe without experience but I got no time to do this).

Are there ways to install and use Hive on a local machine without HDFS/Hadoop?

Answer 1

yes you can run hive without hadoop 1.create your warehouse on your local system 2. give default fs as file:/// than you can run hive in local mode with out hadoop installation

In Hive-site.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?> 
<configuration>
      <property>
         <name>hive.metastore.schema.verification</name> 
         <value>false</value> 
      </property> 
     <property> 
      <!-- this should eventually be deprecated since the metastore should supply this --> 
        <name>hive.metastore.warehouse.dir</name> 
        <value>file:///tmp</value>
        <description></description> 
     </property>
     <property> 
        <name>fs.default.name</name> 
        <value>file:///tmp</value> 
     </property> 
</configuration>

Answer 2

If you are just talking about experiencing Hive before making a decision you can just use a preconfigured VM as @Maltram suggested (Hortonworks, Cloudera, IBM and others all offer such VMs)

What you should keep in mind that you will not be able to use Hive in production without Hadoop and HDFS so if it is a problem for you, you should consider alternatives to Hive