Increasingly popular and widely used, Apache Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop. Hive enables data summarization, querying, and analysis. Hive queries are written in HiveQL, a query language similar to SQL. Hive lets you project structure onto large volumes of unstructured data.
Once you’ve defined the structure, you can use HiveQL to query the data without any knowledge of Java or MapReduce.
In this article, we’ll cover the main commands for using Hive. Take a look:
Main Queries
Object and Structure Queries
For more information and the complete documentation, visit https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual
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