How to use Hive without hadoop

Question

I am a new to NoSQL solutions and want to play with Hive. But installing HDFS/Hadoop takes a lot of resources and time (maybe without experience but I got no time to do this

Answer 1

Update This answer is out-of-date : with Hive on Spark it is no longer necessary to have hdfs support.

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Hive requires hdfs and map/reduce so you will need them. The other answer has some merit in the sense of recommending a simple / pre-configured means of getting all of the components there for you.

But the gist of it is: hive needs hadoop and m/r so in some degree you will need to deal with it.