Prerequisite: How to install sqoop on AWS EC2
https://dev.to/zawhtutwin/installing-sqoop-on-hadoop-14n8

Go to your home folder

cd ~

Download hive

wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/hive/hive-3.1.3/apache-hive-3.1.3-bin.tar.gz

Extract in the home folder

tar -xvf apache-hive-3.1.3-bin.tar.gz

Go to /usr/lib folder and create a folder called hive

sudo mkdir hive

Move the extracted folder from home to /usr/lib/hive

cd ~

mv apache-hive-3.1.3-bin /usr/lib/hive

Add HIVE_HOME environment varibale to .bashrc

sudo nano ~/.bashrc

Add the following

export HIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/hive/apache-hive-3.1.3-bin

And modify PATH variable to the following

PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$HADOOP_HOME/bin:$HADOOP_HOME/sbin:$SQOOP_HOME/bin:$HIVE_HOME/bin

And load the variables

source .bashrc

Then we need to create folders for hive in hadoop file system

hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /bigdata/tmp

hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /bigdata/hive/warehouse

Then give permisssions

hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /bigdata/tmp

hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /bigdata/hive/warehouse

Then go to $HIVE_HOME/conf folder

cd $HIVE_HOME/conf

Then edit the hive-env.sh file as following.

sudo nano hive-env.sh

export HIVE_CONF_DIR=/usr/lib/hive/apache-hive-3.1.3-bin/conf
export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.9.0
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64

Then install the mysql server if you do not have it in your system.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Then create database called 'metastore' and populate tables inside it

CREATE DATABASE metastore;

USE metastore;

SOURCE /usr/lib/hive/apache-hive-3.1.3-bin/scripts/metastore/upgrade/mysql/hive-schema-3.1.0.mysql.sql;

Create a user called hiveuser with the password hivepassword

CREATE USER 'hiveuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'hivepassword';

GRANT all on *.* to 'hiveuser'@localhost identified by 'hivepassword';

flush privileges;

Go to conf directory of hive and create hive-site.xml

cd $HIVE_HOME/conf

sudo nano hive-site.xml

And add the following config

<configuration> 
   <property> 
      <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name> 
      <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/metastore?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true</value> 
      <description>metadata is stored in a MySQL server</description> 
   </property> 
   <property> 
      <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name> 
      <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value> 
      <description>MySQL JDBC driver class</description> 
   </property> 
   <property> 
      <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName</name> 
      <value>hiveuser</value> 
      <description>user name for connecting to mysql server</description> 
   </property> 
   <property> 
      <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword</name> 
      <value>hivepassword</value> 
      <description>hivepassword for connecting to mysql server</description> 
   </property>
   <property> 
        <name>hive.metastore.warehouse.dir</name> 
        <value>/bigdata/hive/warehouse</value> 
        <description>location of default database for the warehouse</description> 
    </property> 
    <property> 
        <name>hive.metastore.uris</name> 
        <value>thrift://localhost:9083</value> 
        <description>Thrift URI for the remote metastore.</description> 
    </property> 
    <property> 
        <name>hive.server2.enable.doAs</name> 
        <value>false</value> 
    </property>
</configuration>

Then copy the mysql connector 8 jar from /usr/share/java/ directory to $HIVE_HOME/lib

cd  /usr/share/java/
cp mysql-connector-java-8.0.30.jar $HIVE_HOME/lib

Check hive is working by entering hive command

hive

exit;

Then start the metastore service with this command

hive --service metastore

Then create the service for later use.

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/hive-meta.service

Add the following

[Unit]
Description=Hive metastore
After=network.target

[Service]
User=ubuntu
Group=www-data
ExecStart=/usr/lib/hive/apache-hive-3.1.3-bin/bin/hive --service metastore

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then start the service
sudo systemctl start hive-meta

Then enable the service so when reboot next time it will be automatically running.

sudo systemctl enable hive-meta

Then remove the folder previously created by sqoop from hdfs with following command

hdfs dfs -rm -r -f /user/ubuntu/hr_users

Then do the scoop import again. Note that you only need to add --hive-import at the end of the command.

sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql://your_rds_dns_address/yourdatabase --table hr_users --username something --password 'something' --hive-import

That will import default.hr_users table into hive.
You can check it inside hive.

hive

use default;
select * from hr_users limit 1;