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Guide for contributors to the metastore on hbase development work. Umbrella JIRA - HIVE-9452

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1. Install HBase, preferably HBase 1.1.1 as that’s what is being used for testing.
2. Copy following jars into $HBASE_HOME/lib

   1. hive-common-.*.jar

   2. hive-metastore-.*.jar

   3. hive-serde-.*.jar

3. 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.
4. Set HADOOP_HOME if you’re not in a cluster where hadoop is already on your path.
5. Start HBase: $HBASE_HOME/bin/start-hbase.sh
6. Set it up so that HBase jars and conf file are picked up by Hive
1. export HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=$HBASE_HOME/lib/
2. export AUX_CLASSPATH=$HBASE_HOME/conf
7. Create the metastore tables in HBase: hive --service hbaseschematool --install
8. Configure Hive to use HBase as its metastore, in hive-site.xml:

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