Install hive on Mac with Homebrew ref: http://qiita.com/giwa/items/dabf0bb21ae242532423

file0.txt

$ brew update
$ brew install hive

file1.txt

# ~/.bashrc
export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/local/Cellar/hadoop/2.7.0
export HIVE_HOME=/usr/local/Cellar/hive/1.1.1/libexec

file2.txt

$ tar zxvf mysql-connector-java-5.1.35.tar.gz
$ sudo cp mysql-connector-java-5.1.35/mysql-connector-java-5.1.35-bin.jar /usr/local/Cellar/hive/1.1.1/libexec/lib/

file3.txt

$ mysql
mysql> CREATE DATABASE metastore;
mysql> USE metastore;
mysql> CREATE USER 'hiveuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,ALTER,CREATE ON metastore.* TO 'hiveuser'@'localhost';

file4.txt

$ cd /usr/local/Cellar/hive/1.1.1/libexec/conf
$ cp hive-default.xml.template hive-site.xml

file5.txt

<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
  <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/metastore</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name>
  <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName</name>
  <value>hiveuser</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword</name>
  <value>password</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>datanucleus.fixedDatastore</name>
  <value>false</value>
</property>
<property>
    <name>hive.exec.local.scratchdir</name>
    <value>/tmp/hive</value>
    <description>Local scratch space for Hive jobs</description>
</property>
<property>
    <name>hive.downloaded.resources.dir</name>
    <value>/tmp/hive</value>
    <description>Temporary local directory for added resources in the remote file system.</description>
</property>
<property>
    <name>hive.querylog.location</name>
    <value>/tmp/hive</value>
    <description>Location of Hive run time structured log file</description>
</property>

file6.txt

$hive
hive > show tables;

I am getting the following error while running "hive" after following all the steps:

WARNING: log4j.properties is not found. HADOOP_CONF_DIR may be incomplete.
ERROR: Invalid HADOOP_COMMON_HOME
Unable to determine Hadoop version information.
'hadoop version' returned:
WARNING: log4j.properties is not found. HADOOP_CONF_DIR may be incomplete.
ERROR: Invalid HADOOP_COMMON_HOME

hive

Unable to determine Hadoop version information.
'hadoop version' returned:

hive

Unable to determine Hadoop version information.
'hadoop version' returned:

This worked for me:
export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/local/Cellar/hadoop/3.1.1/libexec

just kill every detail:

• chmod 777 /tmp/hive
• cp $HADOOP_HOME/share/hadoop/common/lib/guava-27.0-jre.jar $HIVE_HOME/lib/ ; mv guava-19.0.jar guava-19.0.bak # fix version conflicts.