Explain what is Hive?



Explain what is Hive?..

Answer / Sanjeev Kumar Gautam

Apache Hive is a data warehouse software project built on top of Apache Hadoop for providing data query and analysis. Hive gives an SQL-like interface to query data stored in various databases and file systems that integrate with Hadoop.

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