Apache Hive Cookbook

Key Features

Grasp a complete reference of different Hive topics.

Get to know the latest recipes in development in Hive including CRUD operations

Understand Hive internals and integration of Hive with different frameworks used in today’s world.

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Learn different features and offering on the latest Hive

Understand the working and structure of the Hive internals

Get an insight on the latest development in Hive framework

Grasp the concepts of Hive Data Model

Master the key concepts like Partition, Buckets and Statistics

Know how to integrate Hive with other frameworks such as Spark, Accumulo, etc

Who this book is for

The book is intended for those who want to start in Hive or who have basic understanding of Hive framework. Prior knowledge of basic SQL command is also required