It needs Hadoop libraries; it still uses some HDFS libraries for file reading and password management. It does not require a running, installed Hadoop. It does not ship with the required Hadoop libraries to avoid version clashes when installed on a running Hadoop system.
Alan. On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 6:35 PM Rafael Jaimes III <rafjai...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've heard conflicting things about what Hive Standalone Metastore > requires. > I untarred hive-standalone-metastore-3.0.0-bin.tar.gz and ran > bin/start-metastore, which results in the following error: > "Cannot find hadoop installation: $HADOOP_HOME or $HADOOP_PREFIX must be > set or hadoop must be in the path" > So does Hive standalone need Hadoop or is this a configuration error? > > Thanks in advance, > Rafael >