AXS Installation

Currently the only supported method of installing AXS is the manual installation. Anaconda installer is planned for the future.

Prerequisites

Before running AXS make sure you have Java (at least v.8) installed and JAVA_HOME variable set.

You will also need Python 3 with numpy, pandas and arrow packages.

Manual installation

To install AXS follow these steps:

1. Download the latest AXS tarball from the realeases page.
2. Unpack the tarball to a directory of your choosing.
3. Set SPARK_HOME environment variable to point to the extraction directory.
4. Add SPARK_HOME/bin to your PATH variable.
5. Run the axs-init-config.sh script to update spark-defaults.conf and hive-site.xml files with the exact SPARK_HOME path.

Using Anaconda