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  1. Install HBase, you want HBase 0.98 as that’s what we use internally.
  2. Setup HBase, http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#quickstart  I run it in stand alone mode, so you have to set a couple of values in hbase-site.xml for this to work.
  3. Set HADOOP_HOME if you’re not in a cluster where hadoop is already on your path.
  4. Start HBase: $HBASE_HOME/bin/start-hbase.sh
  5. Set it up so that HBase jars and conf file are picked up by Hive
    1. export HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=$HBASE_HOME/lib/
    2. Export AUX_CLASSPATH=$HBASE_HOME/conf
  6. Configure Hive to use HBase as it’s its metastore, in hive-site.xml:

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