Introduction to Apache Hive

The Apache Hive project is built on Hadoop and uses Hadoop’s storage and execution modules. It provides a data warehouse view of the data in HDFS. Using a SQL-like language Hive lets you create summarizations of your data, perform ad-hoc queries, and analysis of large datasets in the Hadoop cluster. The overall approach with Hive is to project a table structure on the dataset and then manipulate it with HiveQL. Since you are using data in HDFS your operations can be scaled across all the datanodes and you can manipulate huge datasets.