Thank heaven for Hive, a data analysis and query front end for Hadoop that makes Hadoop data files look like SQL tables Apache Hive is a specialized execution front end for Hadoop. Hive lets you write ...

MapReduce was invented by Google in 2004, made into the Hadoop open source project by Yahoo! in 2007, and now is being used increasingly as a massively parallel data processing engine for Big Data.

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

Despite the growth of “NoSQL” databases over the past few years, SQL is going nowhere isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it seems Structured Query Language is in ascendance in a realm that once seemed ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...

Amazon Web Services has added support for Impala, the Google inspired query tool developed by big data startup Cloudera. It provides real-time, parallel processing for large amounts of data. With ...

Hive's SQL-like query language and vastly improved speed on huge data sets make it the perfect partner for an enterprise data warehouse Apache Hive is a tool built on top of Hadoop for analyzing large ...