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Hive does not mandate read or written data be in the "Hive format" — there is no such thing. Hive works equally well on Thrift, control delimited, or your specialized data formats. Please see File FormatFormats and Hive SerDe in the Developer Guide for  for details.

Hive is not designed for OLTP workloads and does not offer real-time queries or row-level updates. It is best used for batch jobs over large sets of append-only data (like web logs). What Hive values most are scalability (scale out with more machines added dynamically to the Hadoop cluster), extensibility (with MapReduce framework and UDF/UDAF/UDTF), fault-tolerance, and loose-coupling with its input formats.

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