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Apache Hive

Apache Hive (Hive) is a data warehouse system for the open source Apache Hadoop project. Hive features a SQL-like HiveQL language that facilitates data analysis and summarization for large datasets stored in Hadoop-compatible file systems.

Hive originated as a Facebook initiative before becoming a sub-project of Hadoop. Hive is currently an open source volunteer top-level project under the Apache Software Foundation.

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