Introduction to Hive

A beginners guide to coding in Hive & SQL

Angel Das
Towards Data Science
5 min readApr 7, 2020

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This article focuses on Hive, it’s features, use cases, and Hive queries. Since a lot of DML and DDL queries are very similar to SQL, it can act as a foundation or building block for anyone new to SQL.

Apache Hive is often referred to as a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Apache Hadoop. Originally developed by Facebook…

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Data Science Consultant at IQVIA ANZ || Former Data Science Analyst at Novartis AU, Decision Scientist with Mu Sigma || Ex Teaching Associate Monash University