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Apache Hive Interview Questions

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Explain the Differences between Hive and Spark SQL?

746

Can we change the data type of a column in a hive table?

734

Explain Clustering in Hive?

744

What does the “USE” command in the hive do?

737

What are collection data types in Hive?

768

Can hive queries be executed from script files? How?

692

Give examples of the SerDe classes which hive uses to Serialize and Deserialize data?

737

Is it possible to use the same metastore by multiple users, in case of the embedded hive?

844

Explain bucketing in Hive?

883

How to optimize Hive Performance?

755

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

740

Explain Hive Thrift server?

725

Differentiate between PigLatin and Hive?

727

How is HCatalog different from Hive?

714

Which java class handles the output record encoding into files which result from Hive queries?

703

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Un-Answered Questions { Apache Hive }

What is the precedence order of hive configuration?

977

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

710

Give the command to see the indexes on a table?

958

What does meta-store means in hive?

762

Differentiate between hive and hbase?

803

What is the current version of Hive?

805

What are different Hive commands available for hive and beeline CLI?

759

Is the keyword 'DEFINE' like a function name?

988

Wherever (Different Directory) I run hive query, it creates new metastore_db, please explain the reason for it?

696

Explain SHOW and DESCRIBE Commands in Hive?

787

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

762

Mention what are views in Hive?

728

What is Hive query processor?

949

Is it possible to create cartesian join between 2 tables, using hive?

723

What is SerDe in Apache Hive ?

970

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