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Apache Hive Essentials - Second Edition

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Apache Hive Essentials - Second Edition

Overview of this book

In this book, we prepare you for your journey into big data by frstly introducing you to backgrounds in the big data domain, alongwith the process of setting up and getting familiar with your Hive working environment. Next, the book guides you through discovering and transforming the values of big data with the help of examples. It also hones your skills in using the Hive language in an effcient manner. Toward the end, the book focuses on advanced topics, such as performance, security, and extensions in Hive, which will guide you on exciting adventures on this worthwhile big data journey. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with Hive and able to work effeciently to find solutions to big data problems
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Overview of Big Data and Hive

This chapter is an overview of big data and Hive, especially in the Hadoop ecosystem. It briefly introduces the evolution of big data so that readers know where they are in the journey of big data and can find out their preferred areas in future learning. This chapter also covers how Hive has become one of the leading tools in the big data ecosystem and why it is still competitive.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • A short history from the database, data warehouse to big data
  • Introducing big data
  • Relational and NoSQL databases versus Hadoop
  • Batch, real-time, and stream processing
  • Hadoop ecosystem overview
  • Hive overview