Hive overview
Hive is a standard for SQL queries over petabytes of data in Hadoop. It provides SQL-like access to data in HDFS, enabling Hadoop to be used as a data warehouse. The Hive Query Language (HQL) has similar semantics and functions as standard SQL in the relational database, so that experienced database analysts can easily get their hands on it. Hive's query language can run on different computing engines, such as MapReduce, Tez, and Spark.
Hive's metadata structure provides a high-level, table-like structure on top of HDFS. It supports three main data structures, tables, partitions, and buckets. The tables correspond to HDFS directories and can be divided into partitions, where data files can be divided into buckets. Hive's metadata ...
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