This document provides an overview of Hive, including:
1. It describes Hive's architecture which uses HDFS for storage, MapReduce for execution, and stores metadata in an RDBMS.
2. It outlines Hive's data types including primitive, collection, and file format types.
3. It discusses Hive's query language (HQL) which resembles SQL and can be used to define databases and tables, load and query data.