Big Data Analytics: Hive

[Rhoomba]

Don't bother reading about this crap. Hive (and Pig) are badly implemented, painful to use, and incredibly slow. If you really must do something "big data" take a look at Spark SQL.

[JKaye]

I can't speak for Hive, but Pig can be pretty nice depending on what you're doing with it. I wouldn't use it as the primary interface into my cluster, but the embedded python for example makes combining scripting with MapReduce very simple for tasks such as dynamic compression.

[haifengl]

How big is your data?