Apache Hive

This article is about a data warehouse infrastructure. For the Java application framework, see Apache Beehive.
Apache Hive
Developer(s) Contributors
Stable release 1.1.0 [1] / March 8, 2015
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type

Database engine or management software that has been released under an open source license.

License GNU General Public License (Apache License 2.0)
Website hive.apache.org

Apache Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop for providing data summarization, query, and analysis.[2] While initially developed by Facebook, Apache Hive is now used and developed by other companies such as Netflix.[3][4] Amazon maintains a software fork of Apache Hive that is included in Amazon Elastic MapReduce on Amazon Web Services.[5]

Features

Apache Hive supports analysis of large datasets stored in Hadoop's HDFS and compatible file systems such as Amazon S3 filesystem. It provides an SQL-like language called HiveQL[6] with schema on read and transparently converts queries to map/reduce, Apache Tez[7] and Spark jobs. All three execution engines can run in Hadoop YARN. To accelerate queries, it provides indexes, including bitmap indexes.[8]

By default, Hive stores metadata in an embedded Apache Derby database, and other client/server databases like MySQL can optionally be used.[9]

Currently, there are four file formats supported in Hive, which are TEXTFILE,[10] SEQUENCEFILE, ORC[11] and RCFILE.[12][13][14] Apache Parquet can be read via plugin in versions later than 0.10 and natively starting at 0.13.[15][16]

Other features of Hive include:

HiveQL

While based on SQL, HiveQL does not strictly follow the full SQL-92 standard. HiveQL offers extensions not in SQL, including multitable inserts and create table as select, but only offers basic support for indexes. Also, HiveQL lacks support for transactions and materialized views, and only limited subquery support.[17][18] Support for insert, update, and delete with full ACID functionality was made available with release 0.14.[19]

Internally, a compiler translates HiveQL statements into a directed acyclic graph of MapReduce or Tez, or Spark jobs, which are submitted to Hadoop for execution.[20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Apache Hive Download News
  2. ↑ Venner, Jason (2009). Pro Hadoop. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4302-1942-2.
  3. ↑ Use Case Study of Hive/Hadoop
  4. ↑ OSCON Data 2011, Adrian Cockcroft, "Data Flow at Netflix" on YouTube
  5. ↑ Amazon Elastic MapReduce Developer Guide
  6. ↑ HiveQL Language Manual
  7. ↑ Apache Tez
  8. ↑ Working with Students to Improve Indexing in Apache Hive
  9. ↑ Lam, Chuck (2010). Hadoop in Action. Manning Publications. ISBN 1-935182-19-6.
  10. ↑ Optimising Hadoop and Big Data with Text and HiveOptimising Hadoop and Big Data with Text and Hive
  11. ↑ LanguageManual ORC
  12. ↑ Faster Big Data on Hadoop with Hive and RCFile
  13. ↑ Facebook's Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hive and Hadoop
  14. ↑ Yongqiang He, Rubao Lee, Yin Huai, Zheng Shao, Namit Jain, Xiaodong Zhang and Zhiwei Xu. "RCFile: A Fast and Space-efficient Data Placement Structure in MapReduce-based Warehouse Systems" (PDF).
  15. ↑ "Parquet". 18 Dec 2014. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  16. ↑ Massie, Matt (21 August 2013). "A Powerful Big Data Trio: Spark, Parquet and Avro". http://zenfractal.com/''. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  17. ↑ White, Tom (2010). Hadoop: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4493-8973-4.
  18. ↑ Hive Language Manual
  19. ↑ ACID and Transactions in Hive
  20. ↑ Hive A Warehousing Solution Over a MapReduce Framework

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