August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
7h 3m
English
HBase supports several interfaces to access data in its tables, such as the following:
HBase Shell is straightforward, but a little too simple to perform complex queries on. Other interfaces need programming, which is not suitable for ad hoc queries.
As data keeps growing, people might want an easy way to analyze the large amount of data stored in HBase. The analysis should be efficient, ad hoc, and it should not require programming. Hive is currently the best approach for this purpose.
Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built for Hadoop. Hive is used for ad hoc querying, and analyzing a large data set without having to write a MapReduce program. ...