Prerequisites and Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Linux

OS X

Not supported

Windows

Not supported

Installing and Configuring Impala

  1. Install prerequisites

    git clone https://github.com/awleblang/impala-setup
cd impala-setup
sudo ./install.sh

  2. Clone the Impala git repo and change to the new Impala directory.

    git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-impala.git Impala
cd Impala

  3. Set the following environment variables in your `.bashrc` or elsewhere:

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
export IMPALA_HOME=<path to Impala>
export BOOST_LIBRARYDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.5
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin 
export PATH=$M2:$PATH

  4. Build Impala

    source ${IMPALA_HOME}/bin/impala-config.sh
# Build Impala and prepare the local pseudo-cluster (the first time only)
${IMPALA_HOME}/buildall.sh -noclean -skiptests -build_shared_libs -format

  5. Start supporting services

    # This script starts a full set of local services including HDFS, HBase, 
# Hive and ZooKeeper, amongst other things. If you have trouble starting 
# this script, check the log files in${IMPALA_HOME}/cluster_logs/ for clues.
${IMPALA_HOME}/testdata/bin/run-all.sh
  6. Start the Impala cluster
  7. Check that everything works correctly
  8. Have fun...
  9. Recompile