What is Apache Hive?

Apache Hive is a data warehouse software project built on top of Apache Hadoop for providing data query and analysis.[3] Hive gives an SQL-like interface to query data stored in various databases and file systems that integrate with Hadoop.

What is a hive partition?

Apache ORC (Optimized Row Columnar) is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.