Discussion Question
Hive was discovered by Jeff Hammerbacher during his tenure at Facebook. Facebook was receiving huge volumes of data daily, and there was a need to create a mechanism to help in data storage, mining, and analysis. It is this tool that allows Facebook to process thousands of Terabytes of Data with ease on a daily basis. Hive employs a language called HQL which works in a similar way as SQL. Irrespective of the limitations of commands that HQL understands, the language is still useful. Hive gives users with little programming knowledge the capacity to process, extract and analyze data ...
