Installing Kiji Schema and Shell

Make sure that your Hadoop and HBase are running up.

If you need help to install Hadoop and HBase please see following posts

http://jugnu-life.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/hadoop-installation-tutorial.html

http://jugnu-life.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/hbase-pseudo-mode-install.html

Download Kiji Schema and extract it to some location

https://github.com/kijiproject/kiji-schema

Set following variables

export KIJI_HOME="/home/jj/software/wibi/kiji/kiji-schema-1.0.0-rc5"
export PATH=$PATH:$KIJI_HOME/bin

Install Kiji system tables

$ kiji install

 

jj@jj-VirtualBox:~$ kiji install
Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated.

Creating kiji instance: kiji://localhost:2181/default/
Creating meta tables for kiji instance in hbase...
13/03/30 18:03:37 INFO org.kiji.schema.KijiInstaller: Installing kiji instance 'kiji://localhost:2181/default/'.
13/03/30 18:03:43 INFO org.kiji.schema.KijiInstaller: Installed kiji instance 'kiji://localhost:2181/default/'.
Successfully created kiji instance: kiji://localhost:2181/default/

 

Installing Kiji Schema Shell

Download from

https://github.com/kijiproject/kiji-schema-shell

export KIJI_SHELL_HOME="/home/jj/software/wibi/kiji/kiji-schema-shell-1.0.0-rc5"
export PATH=$PATH:$KIJI_SHELL_HOME/bin

Start kiji shell by

 

jj@jj-VirtualBox:~$ kiji-schema-shell
Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated.

Kiji schema shell v1.0.0-rc5
Enter 'help' for instructions (without quotes).
Enter 'quit' to quit.
DDL statements must be terminated with a ';'
schema>

Congrats , you have installed Kiji Schema successfully. Lets play :)