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1. For bigtop-0.2.0 uncomment and set JAVA_HOME in /etc/hbase/conf/hbase-env.sh
2. For bigtop-0.3.0 this shouldn't be necessary because JAVA_HOME is auto detected

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   sudo service hbase-master start hbase shell

   Test the HBase shell by creating a HBase table named t1 with 3 columns f1, f2 and f3. Verify the table exists in HBase

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   create 't1','f1','f2','f3' list

3. you should see a verification from HBase the table t1 exists, the symbol t1 which is the table name should appear under list

Running Hive

# This is for bigtop-0.2.0 where hadoop-hive, hadoop-hive-server, and hadoop-hive-metastore are installed 
# create the HDFS directories Hive needs

hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp
hadoop fs -mkdir /user/hive/warehouse
hadoop -chmod g+x /tmp
hadoop -chmod g+x /user/hive/warehouse

# create directory /var/run/hive
# create directory /var/lock/subsys

sudo mkdir /var/run/hive
sudo mkdir /var/lock/subsys
sudo /etc/init.d/hadoop-hive-server start

# create a table in Hive and verify it is there

$hive
hive>create table doh(id int)
hive>show tables;

Where to go from here

It is highly recommended that you read documentation provided by the Hadoop project itself (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.205.0/) Bigtop 0.2 or https://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r1.0.0/ for Bigtop 0.3 and that you browse through the Puppet deployment code that is shipped as part of the Bigtop release (bigtop-deploy/puppet/modules, bigtop-deploy/puppet/manifests).