What is Buckets in Hive?



What is Buckets in Hive?..

Answer / Suneel Dutta

Buckets are a partitioning scheme in Hive. They divide data into smaller, more manageable chunks based on a specified column. This improves query performance by reducing the amount of data scanned during execution.

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