Apache Hive for Data Engineers (Hands On) with 2 Projects (Udemy.com)
Learn everything about Apache Hive a modern, data warehouse.
Created by: Bigdata Engineer
Last updated May 2026
What you will learn
- Understand Hive architecture and how queries are executed in a distributed environment.
- Install Hive on both Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows (using Docker Desktop) with step-by-step guidance.
- Learn the Hive Data Model: Tables, Partitions, and Bucketing.
- Work with Hive Data Types (Primitive & Complex).
- Master Hive DDL (Data Definition Language) and DML (Data Manipulation Language).
- Perform data loading, insertion, updates, and deletes in Hive tables.
- Use Hive built-in functions (date, math, string, tokenizing, and aggregation functions).
- Work with Views, Metastore, Partitions, and Bucketing effectively.
- Master Joins in Hive (Inner, Left, Right, and Full Outer Joins).
- Handle XML and JSON data in Hive.
- Learn how to improve performance using ORC file format, bucketing, partitioning, and CBO (Cost-Based Optimization).
- Understand Hive limitations and when to use Hive vs. other big data tools.
How it compares
Against the other 150 rated Udemy courses in Hadoop on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.0 out of 5higher than 18% of them
- Reviews50#133 of 151 by number of reviews
- Length9.6 hourslonger than 68% of them
- Last updatedMay 2026more recently than 87% of them
Course Description
Are you a data engineer, data analyst, or big data enthusiast who wants to master Apache Hive with practical, real-world projects?
This course, Apache Hive for Data Engineers (Hands-On) with 2 Projects, is designed to take you from the fundamentals of Hive all the way to advanced features, optimization techniques, and real-time project implementations.
Hive is one of the most powerful data warehousing tools in the Hadoop ecosystem. It allows you to query, analyze, and manage massive datasets stored in distributed systems using a familiar SQL-like syntax (HiveQL). As data grows exponentially, Hive has become a must-have skill for professionals working in Big Data, Data Engineering, and Analytics.
In this course, you will not only learn Hive concepts in depth but also gain hands-on experience by working on two end-to-end projects:
Project 1: Web Server Log Analytics – Learn how to ingest, manage, and analyze massive server log data using Hive to extract actionable insights.
Project 2: Olympic Analytics – Work with structured datasets to perform analytical queries, aggregations, and reporting using Hive and Zeppelin.
By the end of this course, you will have both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to use Hive effectively in real-world data engineering environments.
Projects You’ll Build
Project 1: Web Server Log Analytics
Load and manage massive web server log files in Hive.
Parse, query, and analyze logs to extract key insights.
Apply partitioning and bucketing for optimization.
Build analytical reports using Hive queries.
Project 2: Olympic Analytics
Load Olympic dataset into Hive tables.
Run complex SQL queries to analyze country-wise, athlete-wise, and sport-wise performance.
Use Hive functions for advanced analytics.
Visualize results using Apache Zeppelin notebooks.
What You’ll Learn
Understand Hive architecture and how queries are executed in a distributed environment.
Install Hive on both Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows (using Docker Desktop) with step-by-step guidance.
Learn the Hive Data Model: Tables, Partitions, and Bucketing.
Work with Hive Data Types (Primitive & Complex).
Master Hive DDL (Data Definition Language) and DML (Data Manipulation Language).
Perform data loading, insertion, updates, and deletes in Hive tables.
Use Hive built-in functions (date, math, string, tokenizing, and aggregation functions).
Work with Views, Metastore, Partitions, and Bucketing effectively.
Master Joins in Hive (Inner, Left, Right, and Full Outer Joins).
Handle XML and JSON data in Hive.
Learn how to improve performance using ORC file format, bucketing, partitioning, and CBO (Cost-Based Optimization).
Understand Hive limitations and when to use Hive vs. other big data tools.
Prepare for interviews with commonly asked Hive interview questions & answers.
Use Apache Zeppelin as a visualization and query execution tool with Hive.
Build two end-to-end projects to apply everything you’ve learned.
Instructor Details
- 4.0 Rating
50 Reviews
Bigdata Engineer
I am Solution Architect with 12+ year’s of experience in Banking, Telecommunication and Financial Services industry across a diverse range of roles in Credit Card, Payments, Data Warehouse and Data Center programmes
My role as Bigdata and Cloud Architect to work as part of Bigdata team to provide Software Solution.
Responsibilities includes,
- Support all Hadoop related issues
- Benchmark existing systems, Analyse existing system challenges/bottlenecks and Propose right solutions to eliminate them based on various Big Data technologies
- Analyse and Define pros and cons of various technologies and platforms
- Define use cases, solutions and recommendations
- Define Big Data strategy
- Perform detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments
- Define pragmatic Big Data solution based on customer requirements analysis
- Define pragmatic Big Data Cluster recommendations
- Educate customers on various Big Data technologies to help them understand pros and cons of Big Data
- Data Governance
- Build Tools to improve developer productivity and implement standard practices
I am sure the knowledge in these courses can give you extra power to win in life.
All the best!!
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Reviews
By Sujata Paul on 4/28/2024
it is a good course
By Pratheek Babu on 8/4/2023
Detailed elloboration would have been better
By Parthasarathy A on 11/29/2022
Should have been better while explaining how the Map/Reduce works and concepts of serialization/De-serialization as it is not clear in this lecture
By Faisal on 9/1/2022
Need to brushup on fluency of communication.
By Fabricio Echeverría on 4/15/2022
Buenos talleres
By Sumita Bhattacharya on 3/17/2022
Above expectations!
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