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Apache Hive Interview Questions

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What is different table structure available in the hive?

540

How can you add a new partition for the month December in the above partitioned table?

521

Why Hive is not suitable for OLTP systems?

550

What is BloomMapFile used for?

511

In case of embedded Hive, can the same metastore be used by multiple users?

635

What are the Binary Storage formats supported in Hive?

538

I want to see the present working directory in UNIX from hive. Is it possible to run this command from hive?

514

What is the use of explode in Hive?

553

How data transfer happens from HDFS to Hive?

588

Can we say cogroup is a group of more than 1 data set?

572

How can the columns of a table in hive be written to a file?

544

What are the different collection type in Hive?

539

How would you drop a table in Hive?

552

When a large data set is maintained?

544

What is Bucket in Hive?

580

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Does Hive support record level Insert, delete or update?

520

What are the different types of tables available in Hive?

536

What are different modes of metastore deployment in Hive?

538

What is a hive in big data?

509

Explain SHOW and DESCRIBE Commands in Hive?

571

What is the difference between CREATE TABLE AND CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE?

546

What kind of applications is supported by Apache Hive?

573

What is the difference between Internal Table and External Table in Hive?

543

What are the components of a Hive query processor?

572

How is HCatalog different from Hive?

520

how can we access the sub directories recursively?

576

When to choose "Internal Table" in Hive?

555

What kind of data warehouse application is suitable for Hive? What are the types of tables in Hive?

577

Explain REPEAT function in Hive with example?

593

In Hive, can you overwrite Hadoop MapReduce configuration in Hive?

637

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