Hive is a Hadoop based data warehousing infrastructure. Hive is a framework for data warehousing on top of Hadoop. Hive is designed to support the data summarization, querying and analysis of large volumes of data. Hive provides simple query language Hive QL for ad-hoc querying the large volumes of data.

In this tutorial, all the topics are covered with in-depth information and can understandable by anyone. Readers can be anyone who has a basic knowledge on Hadoop and java language.

The tutorial is intended for the Hadoop developers who are having minimum Hadoop and java knowledge.

Readers who are having Hadoop and Java knowledge in addition to computation background can understand the concepts a bit easily. Reader without having Java knowledge may need to go through the topic more than once to understand clearly.