<p>Business Intelligence by Claire Vanner| 05 March 2014 CBR talks you through the popular data warehouse software.</p><p>1. What is Hive?Apache Hive is data warehouse software that is built on top of Apache Hadoop to structure big data in the form of query, summarisation and analysis.</p><p>Hive operates on a SQL-like language of its own: Hive Query Language, also known as HiveQL or HQL, which supports the MapReduce jobs to source data stored within the databases run on Hadoop.</p><p>Operating as an open source volunteer project since 2008, it has a team of developers, or Hive committers, who contribute to the code and run tests to improve the software.</p><p><a href="http://www.cbronline.com/news/tech/software/businessintelligence/five-things-you-should-know-about-apache-hive-4190151">Keep reading...</a></p>