# Start hive metastore service.

### Start hive metastore service.

cd $HIVE\_HOME

hive --service metastore &

Recommend to start it in the background with nohup, which will keep the background process alive even disconnect the ssh window

```
cd $HIVE_HOME
nohup hive --service metastore &
```

Now you can start use HIVE, which table data are stored on hdfs file system we created earlier.


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