# Intro

Just another SQL but intended to view files on Hadoop. This is to serve as a quick checkpoint where to start what to start for a new or upcoming data engineer like me.  

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Hive under the hood uses MapReduce to present the data in tabular format.  Think it is like a wrapper on top of HDFS.