Hive is probably the most used tool in the Hadoop ecosystem. To work with Hadoop data, you need to write MapReduce jobs that are not convenient for ad hoc queries. Hive comes to the rescue by providing a SQL-like query language, which internally transforms the query to MapReduce jobs. In HDInsight, Hive sits on top of Azure Blob storage data and provides interactive queries to work with data. Hive can work with structured and semi-structured data. Hive resides on top of a YARN layer and makes use of all the resource negotiations that YARN does. Internally, it uses MapReduce, Tez, ...
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4. Querying Data with Hive
Vinit Yadav1
(1)Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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