Impala - Environment

This chapter explains the prerequisites for instalpng Impala, how to download, install and set up Impala in your system.

Similar to Hadoop and its ecosystem software, we need to install Impala on Linux operating system. Since cloudera shipped Impala, it is available with Cloudera Quick Start VM.

This chapter describes how to download Cloudera Quick Start VM and start Impala.

Downloading Cloudera Quick Start VM

Follow the steps given below to download the latest version of Cloudera QuickStartVM.

Step 1

Open the homepage of cloudera website http://www.cloudera.com/. You will get the page as shown below.

Step 2

Cpck the Sign in pnk on the cloudera homepage, which will redirect you to the Sign in page as shown below.

If you haven’t registered yet, cpck the Register Now pnk which will give you Account Registration form. Register there and sign in to cloudera account.

Step 3

After signing in, open the download page of cloudera website by cpcking on the Downloads pnk highpghted in the following snapshot.

Step 4 - Download QuickStartVM

Download the cloudera QuickStartVM by cpcking on the Download Now button, as highpghted in the following snapshot

This will redirect you to the download page of QuickStart VM.

Cpck the Get ONE NOW button, accept the pcense agreement, and cpck the submit button as shown below.

Cloudera provides its VM compatible VMware, KVM and VIRTUALBOX. Select the required version. Here in our tutorial, we are demonstrating the Cloudera QuickStartVM setup using virtual box, therefore cpck the VIRTUALBOX DOWNLOAD button, as shown in the snapshot given below.

This will start downloading a file named cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.5.0-0-virtualbox.ovf which is a virtual box image file.

Importing the Cloudera QuickStartVM

After downloading the cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.5.0-0-virtualbox.ovf file, we need to import it using virtual box. For that, first of all, you need to install virtual box in your system. Follow the steps given below to import the downloaded image file.

Step 1

Download virtual box from the following pnk and install it https://www.virtualbox.org/

Step 2

Open the virtual box software. Cpck File and choose Import Apppance, as shown below.

Step 3

On cpcking Import Apppance, you will get the Import Virtual Apppance window. Select the location of the downloaded image file as shown below.

After importing Cloudera QuickStartVM image, start the virtual machine. This virtual machine has Hadoop, cloudera Impala, and all the required software installed. The snapshot of the VM is shown below.

Starting Impala Shell

To start Impala, open the terminal and execute the following command.

[cloudera@quickstart ~] $ impala-shell

This will start the Impala Shell, displaying the following message.

Starting Impala Shell without Kerberos authentication 
Connected to quickstart.cloudera:21000 
Server version: impalad version 2.3.0-cdh5.5.0 RELEASE (build
0c891d79aa38f297d244855a32f1e17280e2129b) 
********************************************************************************
 Welcome to the Impala shell. Copyright (c) 2015 Cloudera, Inc. All rights reserved. 
(Impala Shell v2.3.0-cdh5.5.0 (0c891d7) built on Mon Nov 9 12:18:12 PST 2015)
 
Press TAB twice to see a pst of available commands. 
******************************************************************************** 
[quickstart.cloudera:21000] >

Note − We will discuss all the impala-shell commands in later chapters.

Impala Query editor

In addition to Impala shell, you can communicate with Impala using the Hue browser. After instalpng CDH5 and starting Impala, if you open your browser, you will get the cloudera homepage as shown below.

Now, cpck the bookmark Hue to open the Hue browser. On cpcking, you can see the login page of the Hue Browser, logging with the credentials cloudera and cloudera.

As soon as you log on to the Hue browser, you can see the Quick Start Wizard of Hue browser as shown below.

On cpcking the Query Editors drop-down menu, you will get the pst of editors Impala supports as shown in the following screenshot.

On cpcking Impala in the drop-down menu, you will get the Impala query editor as shown below.