> > Hive transparently translates queries into MapReduce jobs that are > executed in HBase
I think this is not correct, are you sure it is from some book? On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Ashok Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > I have read in a book about Hadoop that says > > Apache Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop for > providing data summary, ad hoc queries, and the analysis of large data sets > using an SQL-like language called HiveQL. > > Hive transparently translates queries into MapReduce jobs that are > executed in HBase. Hive is considered the de facto standard for interactive > SQL queries over petabytes of data. > > What is the relation between Hive and HBase? I always thought that HBase > is an independent database. > > Is it correct that Hive itself uses MapReduce engine that in turn uses > HBase as the database. I always thought that Hive is a data warehouse > database or I am missing something. > > > Thanking you > > >
