diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/cli.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/cli.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..914aae3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/cli.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+THISSERVICE=cli
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+cli () {
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver
+  execHiveCmd $CLASS "$@"
+}
+
+cli_help () {
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver
+  execHiveCmd $CLASS "--help"
+} 
+
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/help.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/help.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..432859a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/help.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+THISSERVICE=help
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+help() {
+  echo "Usage ./hive <parameters> --service serviceName <service parameters>"
+  echo "Service List: $SERVICE_LIST"
+  echo "Parameters parsed:"
+  echo "  --auxpath : Auxillary jars "
+  echo "  --config : Hive configuration directory"
+  echo "  --service : Starts specific service/component. cli is default"
+  echo "Parameters used:"
+  echo "  HADOOP_HOME : Hadoop install directory"
+  echo "  HIVE_OPT : Hive options"
+  echo "For help on a particular service:"
+  echo "  ./hive --service serviceName --help"
+}
+
+help_help(){
+  help
+}
+
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/hiveserver.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/hiveserver.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5edce4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/hiveserver.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+THISSERVICE=hiveserver
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+hiveserver() {
+  echo "Starting Hive Thrift Server"
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.service.HiveServer
+  if $cygwin; then
+    HIVE_LIB=`cygpath -w "$HIVE_LIB"`
+  fi
+  JAR=${HIVE_LIB}/hive-service-*.jar
+
+  # hadoop 20 or newer - skip the aux_jars option and hiveconf
+  exec $HADOOP jar $JAR $CLASS $HIVE_PORT "$@"
+}
+
+hiveserver_help() {
+  echo "usage HIVE_PORT=xxxx ./hive --service hiveserver" 
+  echo "  HIVE_PORT : Specify the server port"
+}
+
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/hwi.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/hwi.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9cd8ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/hwi.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+THISSERVICE=hwi
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+hwi() {
+
+  if $cygwin; then
+    HIVE_LIB=`cygpath -w "$HIVE_LIB"`
+  fi
+
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.hwi.HWIServer
+  # The ls hack forces the * to be expanded which is required because 
+  # System.getenv doesn't do globbing
+  export HWI_JAR_FILE=$(ls ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-hwi-*.jar)
+  export HWI_WAR_FILE=$(ls ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-hwi-*.war)
+
+  #hwi requires ant jars
+  if [ "$ANT_LIB" = "" ] ; then
+    ANT_LIB=/opt/ant/lib
+  fi
+  for f in ${ANT_LIB}/*.jar; do
+    if [[ ! -f $f ]]; then
+      continue;
+    fi
+    HADOOP_CLASSPATH=${HADOOP_CLASSPATH}:$f
+  done
+
+  export HADOOP_CLASSPATH
+  
+  # hadoop 20 or newer - skip the aux_jars option and hiveconf
+  exec $HADOOP jar ${HWI_JAR_FILE} $CLASS $HIVE_OPTS "$@"
+}
+
+hwi_help(){
+  echo "Usage ANT_LIB=XXXX hive --service hwi"	
+}
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/jar.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/jar.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b52f9a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/jar.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+THISSERVICE=jar
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+jar () {
+  RUNJAR=$1
+  shift
+
+  RUNCLASS=$1
+  shift
+
+  if $cygwin; then
+    HIVE_LIB=`cygpath -w "$HIVE_LIB"`
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$RUNJAR" ] ; then
+    echo "RUNJAR not specified"
+    exit 3
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$RUNCLASS" ] ; then
+    echo "RUNCLASS not specified"
+    exit 3
+  fi
+
+  # hadoop 20 or newer - skip the aux_jars option and hiveconf
+  exec $HADOOP jar $RUNJAR $RUNCLASS $HIVE_OPTS "$@"
+}
+
+jar_help () {
+  echo "Used for applications that require Hadoop and Hive classpath and environment."
+  echo "./hive --service jar <yourjar> <yourclass> HIVE_OPTS <your_args>"
+}
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/lineage.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/lineage.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..993bc8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/lineage.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+THISSERVICE=lineage
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+lineage () {
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.tools.LineageInfo
+
+  # cli specific code
+  if [ ! -f ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-exec-*.jar ]; then
+    echo "Missing Hive exec Jar"
+    exit 3;
+  fi
+
+  if $cygwin; then
+    HIVE_LIB=`cygpath -w "$HIVE_LIB"`
+  fi
+
+  exec $HADOOP jar ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-exec-*.jar $CLASS  "$@"
+}
+
+lineage_help () {
+  echo "usage ./hive 'hql' "
+} 
+
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/metastore.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/metastore.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db15f6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/metastore.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+THISSERVICE=metastore
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+metastore() {
+  echo "Starting Hive Metastore Server"
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore
+  if $cygwin; then
+    HIVE_LIB=`cygpath -w "$HIVE_LIB"`
+  fi
+  JAR=${HIVE_LIB}/hive-service-*.jar
+
+  # hadoop 20 or newer - skip the aux_jars option and hiveconf
+  exec $HADOOP jar $JAR $CLASS $METASTORE_PORT "$@"
+}
+
+metastore_help() {
+  echo "usage METASTORE_PORT=xxxx ./hive --service metastore"
+  echo "  METASTORE_PORT : Specify the metastore server port"
+}
+
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/rcfilecat.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/rcfilecat.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a9264b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/rcfilecat.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+THISSERVICE=rcfilecat
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+rcfilecat () {
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.RCFileCat
+  HIVE_OPTS=''
+  execHiveCmd $CLASS "$@"
+}
+
+rcfilecat_help () {
+  echo "usage ./hive rcfilecat [--start='startoffset'] [--length='len'] "
+} 
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/util/execHiveCmd.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/util/execHiveCmd.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..167cc40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/ext/util/execHiveCmd.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+execHiveCmd () {
+  CLASS=$1;
+  shift;
+
+  # cli specific code
+  if [ ! -f ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-cli-*.jar ]; then
+    echo "Missing Hive CLI Jar"
+    exit 3;
+  fi
+
+  if $cygwin; then
+    HIVE_LIB=`cygpath -w "$HIVE_LIB"`
+  fi
+
+  # hadoop 20 or newer - skip the aux_jars option. picked up from hiveconf
+  exec $HADOOP jar ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-cli-*.jar $CLASS $HIVE_OPTS "$@"
+}
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/hive b/hivesterix/resource/bin/hive
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8a83bde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/hive
@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+cygwin=false
+case "`uname`" in
+   CYGWIN*) cygwin=true;;
+esac
+
+bin=`dirname "$0"`
+bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+
+. "$bin"/hive-config.sh
+
+SERVICE=""
+HELP=""
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+  case "$1" in
+    --service)
+      shift
+      SERVICE=$1
+      shift
+      ;;
+    --rcfilecat)
+      SERVICE=rcfilecat
+      shift
+      ;;
+    --help)
+      HELP=_help
+      shift
+      ;;
+    *)
+      break
+      ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+if [ "$SERVICE" = "" ] ; then
+  if [ "$HELP" = "_help" ] ; then
+    SERVICE="help"
+  else
+    SERVICE="cli"
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ -f "${HIVE_CONF_DIR}/hive-env.sh" ]; then
+  . "${HIVE_CONF_DIR}/hive-env.sh"
+fi
+
+CLASSPATH="${HIVE_CONF_DIR}"
+
+HIVE_LIB=${HIVE_HOME}/lib
+
+# needed for execution
+if [ ! -f ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-exec-*.jar ]; then
+  echo "Missing Hive Execution Jar: ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-exec-*.jar"
+  exit 1;
+fi
+
+if [ ! -f ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-metastore-*.jar ]; then
+  echo "Missing Hive MetaStore Jar"
+  exit 2;
+fi
+
+# cli specific code
+if [ ! -f ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-cli-*.jar ]; then
+  echo "Missing Hive CLI Jar"
+  exit 3;
+fi
+
+CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${HIVE_LIB}/algebricks-hivesterix-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
+
+for f in ${HIVE_LIB}/*.jar; do
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$f;
+done
+
+# add the auxillary jars such as serdes
+if [ -d "${HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH}" ]; then
+  for f in ${HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH}/*.jar; do
+    if [[ ! -f $f ]]; then
+        continue;
+    fi
+    if $cygwin; then
+	f=`cygpath -w "$f"`
+    fi
+    AUX_CLASSPATH=${AUX_CLASSPATH}:$f
+    if [ "${AUX_PARAM}" == "" ]; then
+        AUX_PARAM=file://$f
+    else
+        AUX_PARAM=${AUX_PARAM},file://$f;
+    fi
+  done
+elif [ "${HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH}" != "" ]; then 
+  if $cygwin; then
+      HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=`echo $HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH | sed 's/,/:/g'`
+      HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=`cygpath -p -w "$HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH"`
+      HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=`echo $HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH | sed 's/;/,/g'`
+  fi
+  AUX_CLASSPATH=${HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH}
+  AUX_PARAM=file://${HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH}
+  AUX_PARAM=`echo $AUX_PARAM | sed 's/,/,file:\/\//g'`
+fi
+
+# adding jars from auxlib directory
+for f in ${HIVE_HOME}/auxlib/*.jar; do
+  if [[ ! -f $f ]]; then
+      continue;
+  fi
+  if $cygwin; then
+      f=`cygpath -w "$f"`
+  fi
+  AUX_CLASSPATH=${AUX_CLASSPATH}:$f
+  if [ "${AUX_PARAM}" == "" ]; then
+    AUX_PARAM=file://$f
+  else
+    AUX_PARAM=${AUX_PARAM},file://$f;
+  fi
+done
+if $cygwin; then
+    CLASSPATH=`cygpath -p -w "$CLASSPATH"`
+    CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH};${AUX_CLASSPATH}
+else
+    CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${AUX_CLASSPATH}
+fi
+
+# pass classpath to hadoop
+export HADOOP_CLASSPATH="${HADOOP_CLASSPATH}:${CLASSPATH}"
+
+# check for hadoop in the path
+HADOOP_IN_PATH=`which hadoop 2>/dev/null`
+if [ -f ${HADOOP_IN_PATH} ]; then
+  HADOOP_DIR=`dirname "$HADOOP_IN_PATH"`/..
+fi
+# HADOOP_HOME env variable overrides hadoop in the path
+HADOOP_HOME=${HADOOP_HOME:-$HADOOP_DIR}
+if [ "$HADOOP_HOME" == "" ]; then
+  echo "Cannot find hadoop installation: \$HADOOP_HOME must be set or hadoop must be in the path";
+  exit 4;
+fi
+
+HADOOP=$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop
+if [ ! -f ${HADOOP} ]; then
+  echo "Cannot find hadoop installation: \$HADOOP_HOME must be set or hadoop must be in the path";
+  exit 4;
+fi
+
+# Make sure we're using a compatible version of Hadoop
+hadoop_version=$($HADOOP version | awk '{if (NR == 1) {print $2;}}');
+
+# Save the regex to a var to workaround quoting incompatabilities
+# between Bash 3.1 and 3.2
+hadoop_version_re="^([[:digit:]]+)\.([[:digit:]]+)(\.([[:digit:]]+))?.*$"
+
+if [[ "$hadoop_version" =~ $hadoop_version_re ]]; then
+    hadoop_major_ver=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
+    hadoop_minor_ver=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
+    hadoop_patch_ver=${BASH_REMATCH[4]}
+else
+    echo "Unable to determine Hadoop version information."
+    echo "'hadoop version' returned:"
+    echo `$HADOOP version`
+    exit 5
+fi
+
+if [ $hadoop_minor_ver -ne 20 -o $hadoop_patch_ver -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "Hive requires Hadoop 0.20.x (x >= 1)."
+    echo "'hadoop version' returned:"
+    echo `$HADOOP version`
+    exit 6
+fi
+
+if [ "${AUX_PARAM}" != "" ]; then
+  HIVE_OPTS="$HIVE_OPTS -hiveconf hive.aux.jars.path=${AUX_PARAM}"
+  AUX_JARS_CMD_LINE="-libjars ${AUX_PARAM}"
+fi
+
+SERVICE_LIST=""
+
+for i in "$bin"/ext/*.sh ; do
+  . $i
+done
+
+for i in "$bin"/ext/util/*.sh ; do
+  . $i
+done
+
+TORUN=""
+for j in $SERVICE_LIST ; do
+  if [ "$j" = "$SERVICE" ] ; then
+    TORUN=${j}$HELP
+  fi
+done
+
+if [ "$TORUN" = "" ] ; then
+  echo "Service $SERVICE not found"
+  echo "Available Services: $SERVICE_LIST"
+  exit 7
+else
+  $TORUN "$@"
+fi
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/hive-config.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/hive-config.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2524bbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hivesterix/resource/bin/hive-config.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+#
+# processes --config option from command line
+#
+
+this="$0"
+while [ -h "$this" ]; do
+  ls=`ls -ld "$this"`
+  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
+  if expr "$link" : '.*/.*' > /dev/null; then
+    this="$link"
+  else
+    this=`dirname "$this"`/"$link"
+  fi
+done
+
+# convert relative path to absolute path
+bin=`dirname "$this"`
+script=`basename "$this"`
+bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+this="$bin/$script"
+
+# the root of the Hadoop installation
+export HIVE_HOME=`dirname "$bin"`
+
+#check to see if the conf dir is given as an optional argument
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do    # Until you run out of parameters . . .
+  case "$1" in
+    --config)
+        shift
+        confdir=$1
+        shift
+        HIVE_CONF_DIR=$confdir
+        ;;
+    --auxpath)
+        shift
+        HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=$1
+        shift
+        ;;
+    *)
+        break;
+        ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+
+# Allow alternate conf dir location.
+HIVE_CONF_DIR="${HIVE_CONF_DIR:-$HIVE_HOME/conf}"
+
+export HIVE_CONF_DIR=$HIVE_CONF_DIR
+export HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=$HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH
+
+# Default to use 256MB 
+export HADOOP_HEAPSIZE=${HADOOP_HEAPSIZE:-256}
diff --git a/hivesterix/resource/bin/init-hive-dfs.sh b/hivesterix/resource/bin/init-hive-dfs.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+# The purpose of this script is to set warehouse's directories on HDFS
+
+DEFAULT_WAREHOUSE_DIR="/user/hive/warehouse"
+DEFAULT_TMP_DIR="/tmp"
+
+WAREHOUSE_DIR=${DEFAULT_WAREHOUSE_DIR}
+TMP_DIR=${DEFAULT_TMP_DIR}
+HELP=""
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+  case "$1" in
+    --warehouse-dir)
+      shift
+      WAREHOUSE_DIR=$1
+      shift
+      ;;
+    --tmp-dir)
+      shift
+      TMP_DIR=$1
+      shift
+      ;;
+    --help)
+      HELP=_help
+      shift
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "Invalid parameter: $1"
+      HELP=_help
+      break
+      ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+if [ "$HELP" = "_help" ] ; then
+  echo "Usage $0 [--warehouse-dir <Hive user>] [--tmp-dir <Tmp dir>]"
+  echo "Default value of warehouse directory is: [$DEFAULT_WAREHOUSE_DIR]"
+  echo "Default value of the temporary directory is: [$DEFAULT_TMP_DIR]"
+  exit -1
+fi
+
+
+# check for hadoop in the path
+HADOOP_IN_PATH=`which hadoop 2>/dev/null`
+if [ -f ${HADOOP_IN_PATH} ]; then
+  HADOOP_DIR=`dirname "$HADOOP_IN_PATH"`/..
+fi
+# HADOOP_HOME env variable overrides hadoop in the path
+HADOOP_HOME=${HADOOP_HOME:-$HADOOP_DIR}
+if [ "$HADOOP_HOME" == "" ]; then
+  echo "Cannot find hadoop installation: \$HADOOP_HOME must be set or hadoop must be in the path";
+  exit 4;
+fi
+
+HADOOP_EXEC=$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop
+if [ ! -f ${HADOOP} ]; then
+  echo "Cannot find hadoop installation: \$HADOOP_HOME must be set or hadoop must be in the path";
+  exit 4;
+fi
+
+
+# Ensure /tmp exist
+$HADOOP_EXEC fs -test -d ${TMP_DIR} > /dev/null 2>&1
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] 
+then
+  echo "Creating directory [${TMP_DIR}]"
+  $HADOOP_EXEC fs -mkdir ${TMP_DIR}
+fi
+
+echo "Setting writeable group rights for directory [${TMP_DIR}]"
+$HADOOP_EXEC fs -chmod g+w ${TMP_DIR}
+
+
+# Ensure warehouse dir exist
+$HADOOP_EXEC fs -test -d ${WAREHOUSE_DIR} > /dev/null 2>&1
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] 
+then
+  echo "Creating directory [${WAREHOUSE_DIR}]"
+  $HADOOP_EXEC fs -mkdir ${WAREHOUSE_DIR}
+fi
+
+echo "Setting writeable group rights for directory [${WAREHOUSE_DIR}]"
+$HADOOP_EXEC fs -chmod g+w ${WAREHOUSE_DIR}
+
+echo "Initialization done."
+echo
+echo "Please, do not forget to set the following configuration properties in hive-site.xml:"
+echo "hive.metastore.warehouse.dir=${WAREHOUSE_DIR}"
+echo "hive.exec.scratchdir=${TMP_DIR}"
+
+exit 0