Yes, Hive 0.5 is compatible with Hadoop 0.20.0. It is also compatible to previous versions to 0.17.2.1+, but Hadoop 0.20 is recommended since it is more stable and supports more functionalities (e.g., CombineHiveInputFormat).
On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:30 PM, hdev ml wrote: Thanks Ning. I cannot find any compatibility page, so not sure which version of hadoop is compatible with hive 0.5.0? So should I install hadoop 0.20.0? On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ning Zhang <nzh...@facebook.com<mailto:nzh...@facebook.com>> wrote: Hive currently doesn't support haoop 0.21 yet (JIRA HIVE-1621). On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:01 PM, hdev ml wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed hadoop-0.21.0 and hive-0.5.0-bin and it is giving me following > error when trying to run hive CLI > > Is there anything wrong that I am doing? > > [u...@machine bin]$ ./hive > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load shims > in class null > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.loadShims(ShimLoader.java:86) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.getHadoopShims(ShimLoader.java:62) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:234) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:192) > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.loadShims(ShimLoader.java:83) > ... 7 more > > > Is this compatibility issue? I followed all the directions of installing HIVE. > > Any help is really appreciated, as I am unable to proceed further. > > Thanks, > Harshad
