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Apache Hive Cookbook

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Apache Hive Cookbook

Overview of this book

Hive was developed by Facebook and later open sourced in Apache community. Hive provides SQL like interface to run queries on Big Data frameworks. Hive provides SQL like syntax also called as HiveQL that includes all SQL capabilities like analytical functions which are the need of the hour in today’s Big Data world. This book provides you easy installation steps with different types of metastores supported by Hive. This book has simple and easy to learn recipes for configuring Hive clients and services. You would also learn different Hive optimizations including Partitions and Bucketing. The book also covers the source code explanation of latest Hive version. Hive Query Language is being used by other frameworks including spark. Towards the end you will cover integration of Hive with these frameworks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Apache Hive Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Hive, an Apache Hadoop ecosystem component is developed by Facebook to query the data stored in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Here, HDFS is the data storage layer of Hadoop that at very high level divides the data into small blocks (default 128 MB) and stores these blocks on different nodes.

Hive provides a SQL-like query model named Hive Query Language (HQL) to access and analyze big data. It is also termed Data Warehousing framework of Hadoop and provides various analytical features, such as windowing and partitioning.