Summary -

In this topic, we described about the HCatalog Installation with detailed example.

Before proceeding with HCatalog installation, Hadoop should be installed first.

Refer Hadoop installation steps here

HCatalog Installation -

The below command to set a system variable HCAT_HOME for HCatalog Home.

export HCAT_HOME = $HCatalog_HOME/HCatalog

The below command to verify the HCatalog installation.

cd $HCAT_HOME/bin
./hcat