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Using Hive with MySQL/MariaDB

To set up MySQL or Maria DB for use with Hive:

Steps

On the Ambari Server host, stage the appropriate MySQL connector for later deployment.
1. Install the connector.
  RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux
```
yum install mysql-connector-java*
```
  SLES
```
zypper install mysql-connector-java*
```
  Debian/Ubuntu
```
apt-get install libmysql-java
```
2. Confirm that
```
mysql-connector-java.jar
```
  is in the Java share directory.
```
ls /usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar 
```
3. Make sure the .jar file has the appropriate permissions - 644.
4. Execute the following command:
```
ambari-server setup --jdbc-db=mysql --jdbc-driver=/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar
```

Create a user for Hive and grant it permissions.

Using the MySQL database admin utility:

 # mysql -u root -p

CREATE USER '<HIVEUSER>'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<HIVEPASSWORD>';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '<HIVEUSER>'@'localhost';

CREATE USER '<HIVEUSER>'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '<HIVEPASSWORD>';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '<HIVEUSER>'@'%';

CREATE USER '<HIVEUSER>'@'<HIVEMETASTOREFQDN>' IDENTIFIED BY '<HIVEPASSWORD>';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '<HIVEUSER>'@'<HIVEMETASTOREFQDN>';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Where <HIVEUSER> is the Hive user name, <HIVEPASSWORD> is the Hive user password and <HIVEMETASTOREFQDN> is the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the Hive Metastore host.

Create the Hive database.
The Hive database must be created before loading the Hive database schema.
```
# mysql -u root -p
```
```
CREATE DATABASE <HIVEDATABASE>
```
Where <HIVEDATABASE> is the Hive database name.