Availability : Open Source.

It is a data warehouse software facilitates reading, writing, and managing large data sets residing in distributed storage using SQL.

Data summarization, query and analysis are three main functions.

It enforces the integration of SQL-like queries (HiveQL) with the underlying Java by providing the necessary SQL abstraction without implementing the queries in the low-level Java API.

Query data with a SQL-based language.

Ensures interactive response time, even for large-scale datasets.

Adds more commodity machines when increasing the amount of data volume as well as data variety without reducing the performance.

Works with traditional data integration and data analytics tools.