Apache Hive is a data warehouse system developed on top of Hadoop Distributed File System for data summarization and analysis and for querying of large data systems in the Hadoop platform. It converts SQL-like queries into MapReduce jobs for easy execution and processing of huge volumes of data.
Hive makes the job easy for performing the following operations:
Data encapsulation
Ad-hoc queries
Analysis of huge datasets
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