Good Article on Hive, Sqoop and CBO

Using Apache Hive with High Performance from Inderaj (Raj) Bains

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Apache Kylin - Olap for Hadoop

http://kylin.apache.org Ebay technologies open sourced this. http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2014/10/20/announcing-kylin-extreme-olap-engine-for-big-data/ Check out the web interface... http://kylin.apache.org/docs/tutorial/web.html

Apache Kylin - OLAP Cubes for SQL on Hadoop from Ted Dunning

Apache Atlas on Data Governance

Apache Atlas is trying to be the Data Governance solution on Hadoop. Their approach has been more about integrating various metadata stores in one place which seems to be lacking in several organizations. It is still in it's early days of development. Currently they have integration with Hive from metadata bridge and Apache Ranger integration for policy enforcements.