Apache Hive was one of the first projects to bring higher-level languages to Apache Hadoop. Specifically, Hive enables the legions of trained SQL users to use industry-standard SQL to process their Hadoop data.
However, as you probably have gathered from all the recent community activity in the SQL-over-Hadoop area, Hive has a few limitations for users in the enterprise space. Until recently, two in particular – concurrency and security – were largely unaddressed.
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