Apache Hive Cookbook [eBook]

Easy, hands-on recipes to help you understand Hive and its integration with frameworks

Hanish Bansal, Saurabh Chauhan, Shrey Mehrotra

Updated on Jun, 2025

Programming, Database and Design Development, Apache Spark

Formats : MOBI, EPUB, PDF (Downlodable)

ISBN : 9781782161080

Hive was developed by Facebook and later open-sourced in the Apache community. Hive provides an 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 with 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 the latest Hive version.

Hive Query Language is being used by other frameworks, including Spark. Towards the end, you will cover the integration of Hive with these frameworks.

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