Apache Hive is an Enterprise Data Warehouse build on top of Hadoop. Hive supports Insert/Update/Delete SQL statements with transactional semantics and read operations that run at Snapshot Isolation. This talk will describe the intended use cases, architecture of the implementation, new features such as SQL Merge statement and recent improvements. The talk will also cover Streaming Ingest API, which allows writing batches of events into a Hive table without using SQL. This API is used by Apache NiFi, Storm and Flume to stream data directly into Hive tables and make it visible to readers in near real time.