Introduction to Hive

Hive is SQL (Structured Query Language) type of programming language that runs on the platform of Hadoop. It was created to manage, pull, process large volume of data that Facebook produced.
We assume that you would already been familiar with the classical RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) and its underlying architecture along with the SQL structure and semantics. As Hive is part of Hadoop cluster so when a Hive query is submitted it gets converted into a sequence of Map Reduce jobs Read more