Mike Driscoll (founder of Metamarkets), referencing Cloudera's Jeff Hammerbacher, explains how SQL interfaces drive enterprise Hadoop cluster adoption.
“Once you install Hive onto Hadoop cluster, usage of that cluster typically goes up by a factor of 10 because you lower the friction of getting data out of that system.”
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