Thankyou Gabriel Your answers are very useful to me. Thanks a lot
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Bill Busch <bigdat...@outlook.com> wrote: > MapReduce can be used for both structure and unstructured data. Hive is > a storage and retrieval mechanism (e.g. database). The trouble with RDBMS > is that you either have to parse the unstructured data into a structured > row /column format OR store it as an object. There are issues both > performance and semantically . Hence, there is a whole world of NoSQL > databases out there that have been developed that are not row-column > structured. These databases can handle more schema-less/unstructured > objects and will allow you to more eloquently manipulate your information. > I would check out the Wikipedia page on NoSQL databases and focus on > Key - Value, Columnar, or Document databases. > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 07:06:16 +0530 > Subject: Re: Question > From: mohan.25fe...@gmail.com > To: user@hive.apache.org > > > Thanks Gabriel for the prompt response > > I see in online blogs saying MapReduce for Unstructured Data , Pig for > Semi Sturctured Data and Hive is only for Structured Data. Can you please > justify this? > > > Thanks in advance > > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Gabriel Eisbruch < > gabrieleisbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mohan, > We are using hive for unstructured (or semi structured data) using map > columns, for example, we use for fixed data standard columns and form > dynamic data map columns. > > Gabriel. > > 2014-12-03 22:19 GMT-03:00 Mohan Krishna <mohan.25fe...@gmail.com>: > > Hive is for only structured data or it handles Unstructured data as well ? > > > >