On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 03:09PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, giridharan kesavan
> <gkesa...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > It looks like bigtop-0.3.1 branch doesn't seem to install hive-metastore
> > with puppet modules.
> > Looking at the puppet module for hive, it only installs the hive package.
> > I'm trying to understand if there was an issue to enable hive-metastore
> > installation and starting the service?
> > Filed a jira for installing hive-metastore in hive puppet module. -
> > BIGTOP-722
> 
> No issue as far as I can tell -- just an omission. There's a bit of 
> complication
> that I can foresee which is Hive metastore really benefits from a SQL
> server behind it (I would recommend Derby). Thus if you really want to fix
> it in a reliable way Bigtop puppet will have to handle deploying one of the
> OS SQL servers (PostgreSQL perhaps?). I see there's a few puppet modules
> available on the Forge for doing that:
>     http://forge.puppetlabs.com/modules?q=postgresql&commit=Go

It would be great to be able to use PostgreSQL, but Hive blows big time and
won't work with this great DB server ;(

Cos

> It would be really nice if somebody could figure out how to get one work
> in Bigtop (providing that licensing is compatible).
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.

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