- Hive is a data warehousing system built on Hadoop that allows SQL-like queries for analysis of large datasets stored in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
- It aims to make Hadoop easier to use by providing a more traditional interface for data summarization, querying, and analysis.
- Facebook uses Hive for large-scale reporting, ad-hoc analysis, data mining, and other applications on petabytes of data stored in its Hadoop clusters.