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Why Use Hive SQL Queries for Structured Complaint Data in Hadoop?
Hive excels at structured complaint data analysis via SQL-like HiveQL queries on HDFS, converting to parallel MapReduce jobs—perfect for Hive & Pig certification’s location-based complaint insights and scalable analytics.
Question
Why is Hive suitable for analyzing structured complaint data?
A. It supports streaming analytics
B. It processes data in real-time
C. It handles low-level Java programming
D. It uses SQL-like queries to analyze structured datasets stored in HDFS
Answer
D. It uses SQL-like queries to analyze structured datasets stored in HDFS
Explanation
Hive is suitable for analyzing structured complaint data because it provides HiveQL, a declarative SQL-like query language that allows analysts to perform familiar operations like SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, and WHERE clauses on structured datasets (e.g., ORC/Parquet complaint tables partitioned by location/date) stored in HDFS, automatically translating these into optimized MapReduce, Tez, or Spark jobs for parallel execution across the Hadoop cluster. This abstraction eliminates the need for procedural MapReduce Java code or Pig scripting, enabling rapid ad-hoc analysis of aggregated metrics such as complaint counts by city, average response times per issue category, or top problems per region directly from the Hive metastore without loading data into memory. In the Customer Complaint project, Hive complements Pig’s ETL preprocessing by offering scalable data warehousing for business intelligence queries, making complex pattern discovery accessible to SQL-proficient users while leveraging HDFS’s fault-tolerant storage for petabyte-scale retail complaint records.