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Setting up our demo environment

Setting up our demo environment - Hive Tutorial

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Setting up our demo environment

- [Instructor] Okay, let's begin by setting up our environment. There are a few steps here and I'm going to take you through them and so you can get totally setup with our demo environment using HUE, which is the query editor for Hive. First we're going to install VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a virtual machine software where we can run essentially another computer on our computer that already has some software installed. That software comes with the CDH image. CDH is the Cloudera environment that we'll use and I'll show you that in a second. And then lastly we follow the onscreen instructions to setup HUE. HUE is the Hadoop user interface and it's where we're going to be using Hive to write our queries against our data in HDFS. So step one is to download and install VirtualBox. I'm running OSX, but if you're running Windows or Linux or any of the other systems you can follow the instructions here. You click the download link and while that's going go over to the Cloudera download page…

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