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Apache Hive Cookbook
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Apache Hive Cookbook

by Hanish Bansal, Saurabh Chauhan, Shrey Mehrotra
April 2016
Beginner
268 pages
5h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preface

Hive is an open source big data framework in the Hadoop ecosystem. It provides an SQL-like interface to query data stored in HDFS. Underlying it runs MapReduce programs corresponding to the SQL query. Hive was initially developed by Facebook and later added to the Hadoop ecosystem.

Hive is currently the most preferred framework to query data in Hadoop. Because most of the historical data is stored in RDBMS data stores, including Oracle and Teradata. It is convenient for the developers to run similar SQL statements in Hive to query data.

Along with simple SQL statements, Hive supports wide variety of windowing and analytical functions, including rank, row num, dense rank, lead, and lag.

Hive is considered as de facto big data warehouse solution. ...

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