Hive 14 Transactions, Inserts, Updates, Deletes explained

Great slides explaining Hive 14 transactional support capabilities.

Adding ACID Transactions, Inserts, Updates, and Deletes in Apache Hive from Hadoop_Summit

HDInsight Essentials 2nd version is coming soon

This is 2nd edition of my book HDInsight Essentials.  This one is more in-depth and go through a journey of building an enterprise data lake.   It is up to date with Hadoop 2.X and HDInsight 3.1.

I also take a real life project and walk through the ingestion, organization, transformation and reporting phases.

https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/hdinsight-essentials-second-edition

Hive 14 released with useful features for RDBMS offload use cases

Great features in Hive 14 that make it really close to an RDBMS solution based on Hadoop: http://hortonworks.com/blog/announcing-apache-hive-0-14/

Key features:

• Transactions with ACID semantics
• Cost Based Optimizer
• SQL Temporary Tables

Design Docs of Hive if you are interested to get to the details: 

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/DesignDocs