What is this? This is huge amount of data. Along with the fast growth of active users on Facebook, the size of our data is exploding. In the last 12 months, the amount of data increased by 500%. These data are very valuable. They can be used to understand the user behavior, measure the impact of a new product, and make data-based decisions. Traditionally people store data in data warehouse solutions on top of Oracle and MySQL. In the recent years, we are also seeing new proprietary solutions like AsterData and Netezza. However, these solutions either do not scale to the amount of data that we have, or they are very inflexible that cannot satisfy our data analysis requirements. In order to provide the capability to analyze the huge amount of data that we have, we started the Hive project. Hive is based on Hadoop but does much more than Hadoop. We will show the details in the following slides. ============
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